Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-11-21

gIl-a stupid German creature. who b
succeeded TO our intelligent Ryidr
a when the latter got married, ''e
meth -, IL is not 80 much that care for +,
silver, Katharine said I but a.,
= ., prime ~ Uo@'n ID
ee NY vile discharged Katharine in .
impatient moment, soon after tbis bf
cause cause the girl threw into the swiIl. mn
ito. iour quarts of rich, cream. .colored m;I
itb enat mad been procured with oree
trouble from the country, to make
Il prize pudding for dinner party tbat
gave to some cf my friends Katbor;n
oa was pure city bred, and had never soc,
'1 buch looking milk before in her life. oh,
:. supposed it spoiled, and into the swiii
be pail it went. '''0 S"lii-
we had our porker about a month
on auu ne had grown with marvellous celer,
ny. The condition of things in nv bach
% garden occupied large share of INV AZ.
" iii iti9intion; for though small, it had been
ttlDefaliy stocked and diligently cared
.or' ana there was quite a rivalry he
D. tween my neighbor Jones and myseli in
'uls matter. Jones boasted of yerv ON
pefIor erudition in these things and
oelng gentleman of leisure. he had
more tme to look after them than had.
tJl nut struggled hard not to be distanceJ
1nere was no disputing the point ~
: Jones isaoeilas being rather ahead of
while the apple tree. the two plum trees
and the grapevincs hung heavy with |
their load.
One day our porker got out of bis pen,
and went roofing around in the garden
with tumultuous exercise of his free
dom. OF course, these women never
saw him; it was washing day, believe.
The havoc he had made by the time l
came home at night was thrilling to wit
ness. Nobody could tell how long he
had been out Of his pen; but judging
| by the devastation | witnessed, he must
have been out sirce morning.
There was nothing to DO now, how
ever, but to put him back into his pen.
| soon found there was no driving him
back to the pen. He lodged one in the
most exasperating manner. He doubled
and twisted in way to set at naught all
my calculations. / was no match for
him. Jones came out while was exer-
cising the porker, and laughed at me
over the fence.
You don't go at it in the right way,
Dobbs. said he.
Perhaps you'd like to try it yourself,
Mr.. Jones, said, with some dignity a.,
and a very red face.
Take him by the tail, said Jones, :
calmly, in reply. Get his nose aimed :,
toward the pen, and then pull his tail. y
The more you pull one way the more a a
he'll pull the other, and he'll be IN the u
pen before you Know Ae ~, ,oot, \ u
Katie. who was standing on the PACK v
steps looking at me, laughed 80 hearuly s
AZ this. that I felt quite good hunoIe9
again, and asked Jones to come over anu
! give us the benefit OF hls SUPERIOR "iS.
/ dom. After little bantef' hil1 .u'
handing Of cluster OF lsapeii"S " N"'A0'
he climbed the fence: ,.u form, |
Now, Dobbs, snid Jones, we 4 lo,'5 Ia
line-you and ! and Mrs. booOS "D>'
the servant girl. ..o.,
I so il was undertaken. forker s'oo"
nv the fence, cycling us with deep OK OK,
. nTession Of interest. We moVeu ooNp
upon him; he wheeled about, snoIte.',
!. and then made dive at us, or ratller aO
me and. whishl he went right between eI u
y nv nv laos SO that l aprawled out on th1 |,
> aronnd most ungrscefully. kaue ana
r. the ,ervant girl ran screaming lhto 'iie
hopsa and Jones was over the lehce III
Be no time. o,,4 Tor Pc
The result of it was, we sent ior I9
no tor IT had now grown someWnnt o,'l n
,e' int Peter made short work OF the !op
10 No cot rope and took IN his o'nel
Lond the big stick had been houfish
N inc. then he went up to porker, 1eVche'
'oe bin, one tremendous blow over the pro
nm boscis and while poor piggy was sva8
,n ooTing and seeing million stars Jst a4lPRss Ps
pn ths. sesrs TO morrow, if you are nc
fer fer oo@"oed. com" and gather what's left OF th
of vegetables. 81 a good dea
left after all. Porker's havoc was great
ls, er in appearance than IN reailty. fete
1 stored the cellar with aouhuan1e Int :
among other things, with nice lot {
are superior beans in the soft pods, whic
the Law there till they got very moldy, an
,wl were fit for nothing but swlll.
ws. / remember, as il it were but yeste
dav, the morning those beans were Il
to our pig. l was going out OF town
was be gone three days, on business OF II
,wn portance saw a supply OF the mole
,ag. beans fed to the porker, and then d
un- parted.
an am seldom away from nome, a.
f. consequently am missed when 8
aled away and my welcome on returning
wont to be of the most affecdonate {
scription. But on this occasion, grea
1 |. to my surprise, Katie was not in
use, front hall to greet me. waded throu
ated the children into the back part of
use house, where Katie was l fancied s
t her looked at me with half frightened 9
Q no but | took her fondly to my arms, a
so l was about imprinting a rapturous k
ten on her lips when my eye CHANGED to
out of the window, and | suspended
That kiss midway of delivery. The door
for the pig pen stood wide open and tn
j, he was a peculiar aspect of desolation ab,
it.
IN in where's our porker? asked, po
Ugly. poning the kiss pro tempore,
Our porker, said Mrs. Dobbs, gra
sent ly, is in his grave.
wing Good heayen8l' | cried, dead
My Immediately went out to look ct his
)mer serted abode.
He 1 was quite calm by dinner time, a
was informed Katie that | was ready to h'
the particulars of the sad event.
'e he well, James, she commenced, y
nes.' know you directed those beans to be
'our- to him.
oh, that's It'll 1 thought it would
pig laid at my door in some manner, I
.p Of withstanding the little circumstance
m. / l was over two hundred miles av
I'd to Well, proceed.
M to so the girl gave him beans for din
The and beans for supper, and the l
eter's morning she went out with some mt
A SO. and then heard her scream; Invent
orker and there he was-swelled up-
The dreadfully-twice as large as life, del
lie of and lying on his side and kicking