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

I" Can you build pen, Peter ?"
"Yah, I" Peter said he could, and so
sent him Off after tools and materials,
having the pig tied TO tree by one leg.
| MY family gathered about the newcom-
er, and viewed him with deep interest.
He was.a little fellow, but healthy, as
was proved by the capacity Of his lungs.
Mercy !" cried Susan, what noise
he makes. He must be hungry, James"
Susan's experience with babies eRcour-
aged her to this conclusion.
81 know what'll make more noise
than that, said my Fred, with roguish
twinkle in his eyes.
"What is itp" asked to encourage
my son.
1.-TWO pigs" said Fred.
When came home at night the pig
was fast asleep in his pen ON heap of
straw, and felt quite pride in him. l
had secret hopes of my own in regard to
him, though did not impart them to
Susan. He cost only $2-that Is per sc.
The pen cost about $40 more, and Peters
fare brought the sum total up to $l4.s3.
l watched the growth of oul porker
with Il high degree of interest. The
swill pail always stood by the side of the
wood house door, and, though it was
not an agreeable object in an aesthetic
| point of view, could not for some time
get over vexatious kind of curiosity as
to its contents. l found some strange
| things in It sometimes-viewed as arti-
cles of food; one Of Fred's boots, for in
stance or pair of scissors, or tea
spoon. Once when found n silver fork
in the swill, demonstrated with the
servant girl-a stupid German creature,
who had succeeded to our intelligent
Bridget when the latter got married.
1t is not so much that care for the
silver, Kathrine," said l, but / don't
want the porker choked to death in his
prime"
My wife discharged Kathrine, in an
impatient moment, soon after this, be-
cause the girl threw into the swill pail
four quarts of rich cream covered milk
that had been procured with great
trouble from the country, to make a
prize pudding for dinner party that
gave to some of my friends. Kathrine
was pure city bred, and had never seen
such looking milk before in her life; she
supposed it spoiled, and into the swill
pail il went.
We had our porlSer about month and
he had grown with marvellous celebrity.
The condition of things in my back gar
den occupied large share of my atten-
ton, for though small, it had been liber-
ally stocked and diligently cared for,and
there was quite rivalry between my
neighbor Jones and myself in this mat
ter. Jones boasted of very superior
erudition in these things, and being a
gentleman of leisure he had more time
to look after them than had, but 1
struggled hard not to be distanced. There
was no disputing the point of Jones' Is
abellas being rather ahead of mine, but
in most respects felt myself his peer.
September showed our garden rich with
an abundance of tomatoes, cabbages,
onions, beets and so on, while the apple
| blSSs luc bWO tISts, bHO grape
vines hung heavy with their load.
One day our porker got out of his pen
and went roofing around in the garden
with tumultuous exercise of his free
dom. OF course those women never saw
him; it was washing day, believe. The
havoc he had made by the time 1 came
home at night was thrilling to witness.
Nobody could tell how long he had been
out, but judging by the devastation j
witnessed he must have been out since
morning. Tennyson's verse; in MAUD
may give faint indication of my emo
tions as stood in the back door that
evening:
'The roots OF my hair have stirred
And my pulses CT osed their gates with shock on
my heart"
There was nothing to do now, how
ever, but to put him back in the pen. AS
he had grown, the porker had developed
a very ugly expression of countenance
and as looked at him now with his
tusks, protruding in villainous way,
confess it was not o cheerful sight for 8
timid man. However, got big stick
and went at him with loud "shoos' anC
extravagant Furnishings of my weapon
He eyed me quietly out of his viciou!
little optics, and whisked his tail defiant
ly. soon found there was no driving
him back to the pen. He lodged me ir
the most exasperating manner. HI
doubled and twisted in a way to set a