The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-05-01

dom. After O little banter, and the
handing of q cluster of Isabellas 10 Su-
san, he climbed the fence.
Now, Dobb," said Jones, 'we'll
form llno--you and /, and Mrs. Dobb
and the servant girl"
81 beg to be excused, Mr.. Jones'"
laughed Susan, with timid glance at
the porker.
"My dear madam" said Jones, gal
lantly, "there no danger at all / am
quite in earnest, ! assure you. 1t Is q
pigs nature to yield to overwhelming
numbers. We have only to form line
and close down upon him in a sort of
crescent, and he will give up the struggle
at once, rs you will see"
So IL was undertaken. Peter stood by
the fence, cycling us with deep express
sion of interest. We moved down upon
him he wheeled about, snorted, and
then made dive at us, or rather at me,
and, whish he went right between my
legs so that sprawled out on the ground
most ungracefully. Susan and the SER
want girl ran screaming into the house,
and Jones was over the fence in no
time.
The result of IL was we sent for Peter
1t had now grown dark, but Peter made
short work of the job. He got rope
and took in his other hand the big stick
l had been flourishlng; then he went up
to the porker, fetched him one tremend-
Gus blow over the proboscis and while
poor piggy was staggering and seeing
million of stars, slipped the rope over
one of his hind legs, and had him into
the pen in trice.
Peter" said /, after that, "you may
come round tomorrow, If you are not
engaged and gather up what's left of the
vegetables"
He did so. There was good deal left
after all. Porker's havoc was greater in
appearance than in reality. Peter stored
the cellar with bundance-among other
things, with nice lot of superior
beans in the soft pods, which lay there
till they got very mouldy, and were fit
for nothing but swill.
remember, as il it were but yester-
day, the morning those beans were fed
to our pig. was going out of town to
be gone three days on business of impor-
tance. saw supply of the mouldy
beans fed to the porker, and then 1 de-
parted. TO say that did not think of
my pig while was away, would be to
state an untruth. L did think of him.
Though lost to sight he was TO memory
dear.
am seldom away from home, and
consequently am missed when L am
away--and my welcome on returning is
wont to be Of the most afIectionate de-
scription. But on this occasion, greatly
to my surprise, Susan was not in the
front hall to greet me. l Iwaded through
the children into the back part of the
house, where Susan was. fancied she
looked at me with half frightened air,
but took her fondly to my arms, and
was about imprinting a rapturous kiss
on her lips, when my eye chanced to go
out of the window, and suspended the
kiss midway OF delivery. The door of
the pig pen stood wide open, and there
was peculiar aspect of desolation about
1t.
Where's our porkerp" asked, post
poning the kiss pro tempOre.
"Our porker," said Mrs. Dobb, ,gravely
sis in his grave"
"Good Heavens ~ cried, dead ~
and Immediately went out to look at his
deserted abode.
was quite calm by dinner time, and
informed Susan that was ready to hear
the particulars of the sad event.
"Well, James, she commenced,
"you know you directed those beans to
be fed to him ?"
"That's it. thought it would be laid
at my door in some manner, nOtwith-
standing the little circumstance that j
was over two hundred miles away. Well
proceed"
80 the girl gave him beans for din
ner, and beans for supper, and the next
morning she went out with some more,
and then heard her scream. / went
out and there he was-swelled up-oh
dreadfully-twice as large as life, dear
and lying on his side and kicking his
legs family. Neighbor Jones looked the
over fence and asked what the matter
was"
"With a bunch of lsabellas doubt
less.'
"And when we told him he came
over to see the pig, and said pooh h,