The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-07-14

PLACES ih lNt Ntlfs anu RN the ltlOirt1-
81 al this they get along very nicely.
They are old people, and she kn:is in
eessnntly, and, To make things look
comfortable and easy like, he smokes,
and when they hitch up the old mare
and drive Ia town. she with her sun
bonnet on and kni;ting-work in hand.
and he smoking and stimulaiina the
Aforesaid old mare 20 greater speed by
haulings and pullings ON the bit, they
look comfortable, 70 say the least
Every spring they buy u pig 10 fat and
kill in the fall for winter use, and so
last spring they went 70 neighbours,
who lived about three miles of, 10 look
At pig "A fine one il was" he said,
. and he would sell il for mere nothing,
too. the small matter Of three dollars,
and il was half grown"
So, as was before remarked. they
went over 10 look al the pig, which was
smut up in pen boarded up ten feet
high, and they had TO look through
cracks 10 see him. The owner said the
reason the pen was built SO high was
because the dogs worried the pig, and
he had 70 board i up 20 keep them ou.
The pig stood quite sill for = few
minutes, a. though he wanted t. give
them q good opinion Of himself, and in
the words II Mr. McPelfer she was a
rakish looking GUS" The owner said
be was none Of your soft, ilabby, LAZY,
pigs" and IL might have been seen with
half an eye that he wasn't He sort 81
looked As though some one had v hitled
aim out with a jack-knife, and had
sharpened him of alike Al both ends
One ear stood Strengthened up with a
startled air. and the other one HUNG
down dejectedly, and a. Mr. McPelt-
er said, I" the twist of his tail was jus;
awful" He had q way II standing
stock still and meditAting, IS though he
was composing poetry or going 20 make
. stump speech, which made poor Mrs
NcPelter laugh till the tears ran, and
thea he suddenly said boot, w0Of, -
ard made bolt for the place she was
looking through, and she went right
away from it on her elbows because She
hain't time TO turn her feet round she
wss 80 scared Then the man said thar
pig was SO playful that he hated To part
with him, but he would, considering X
w.s them, for two dollars and a half,
and so they talked awhile, and al last
for two and n quarter they got him and
put him in the wagon and logged home
with him; and that be was an uncom-
non pig and very playful was after
wards proven very satisfactorily
II was pretty near night when they
got home, and they put him in a pen
that they had built and gave him some
corn and some sour milk with other in
gradients, and he ate them and acted
ike any other well regulated pig, and
the old people surveyed him and re-
joiced, remembering the two dollars
and a quarter So they went 70 bed
and slept the sleep II the just, and the
next morning they we're wakened by
The most tremendous racing, and run
ming and sguea.ing tina. was ever heard.
and they got UP la a great hurry and
went right ont 10 see what was the mat
ter. The pig was out Of the pen, and
bad run the dog nearly - death, and
mad turned their whole garden the other
side up. lie was a good mathemati-
cian. lie had done il All by square
root.
Mr. McPeiter, with the help II the
cid lads, tried 10 inveigle that pig into
the pen again. They cOaxed and coaxed
aud run and sweat and jawed each
other and the pig alternately He
would run and they after him, and just
a. they would think they had rot him
he'd give snort and make a flank
movement, and away he'd 20. lie was
regular racerand never seemed % get
winded. At last Mrs. McPelier thought
Of plan There was great bic
cauldron kettle turned upside down in
the yard, prOpped up on one side with
3 stick. She tied a rope % the stick
and put some corn under the kettle and
sal down afar II holding the rope
and awaited events. The pig
marched around awhile and
then he SMILED the corn
and went up and stood round a little
and then veniured under and she gave
the rope jerk and had him safe under
the kettle. Then they went in and had
their breakfast, and after that Mr. Nc
Pelter hitchcd the old mare 90 3 ring in
the side Of the kettle aud DRAGGED Il
into the pig pen with the pig under IT,
Then he built the pen up eight feet high
and got outside and rugged pulley and
lifted the kettle out. But the pen
couldn't hold him. The last time be
got out Mrs. McPelter was in a narrow
alley beside the house feeding the hens
and counting them, and that pig
heard those hens and started for
them. lie didn't care a cent for the
small natter VI Mrs. Mcpelter in bis
way. He Just charged that alley with
a"woof, wool and run right under
the old lady and took her on his back
and away he went. She kicked and
hollered, but rode about twenty feet be-
fore she rolled of The old gentleman
was in the barn and ran 70 the door just
As she landed and the pig cornered a