Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-11-21
OUR PORKER.
j a 4. Pigg .e ! exclaimed. in great aston

ssbsasSs ,.a...s,,es saoialmeu' IN great aston
not, and it would be quite a little item
Of saving, when meat is so high
Why, Katie, you'd have to buy food
for it-corn and apples, and don't know
what all-it would cost more than it
would come TO.
No, persisted my wife, 1T would not,
James Father always kept q pig.
But he lived il the country.
That makes 10 difference. l was
talking with uCpLbor Jones about it
over the fence yesterday, AMI he said We
threw away swill enough every day to
keep ten Ligs.
4 fbould like to know what Jones
knows about our swill, said |.
Why. he judged from his own e1pe-
rienoe, James. He keeps pig.
And while we are on the subject,
Katie, III just take the opportunity to
say | do not approve Of your flirting
with married men over the fence.
James, do be serious' Flirting, in
dced-with pigs and swill as basis of
conversation. You Just want to vex me.
Oh, pigs are pretext; anything will
do for a pretext when a woman is deter
mined to fiirt. l knew woman once
who tried to use portrait Of her dead
grandmother as pretoxt for Irritation.
AS for Jones'
Now. James, you shall rot go on in
TINT yav: before the children, tOo.-
Look at NeIhe's eyesP
'perhaps You'll pretend, continued,
that Jones didnN bring you ouhch oi
Tsabellas at the same time
,Yes and YOU ate the best part Oh
ibem st evening yourself, for ! saved
then for YOU, and you know Mr.. Jones
c'ronos are much superior to ours. M
snre I'm thankful for all he gives me,
WIN You get pig for me, James, OF
won't youY ror Katie Of
oonrse will. III get you anything
Not will be source OF pleasure yo.
know. but il you want pig Tor pc!
5on't try to pretend it's for economy
"A petr poutcd Katie. How r'olcu
Ions you arel | detest pets. =,
Then, why don't you avoid them' III
dear?' ,, 40 don
know Ko+;c I
why. You are in one now h9'ie'
aoln, Tbe coffee will get cold.
Mrs. Dobb gave nae one ursp"i' II :,
look, and then poured the CONF: - !
fore I left the house had Proulise"
see about getting pig uooc
Onmy homeward way IN the aite.noo l'
made n circuit around by the resldel
Of Peter Vann Popp, Dntchman W1' 1'
employed to take care OF my & ga.e w
might be ,p:fss p:ffsas=%-s was Just me man -
sss.i',si sins i,,eas. He had a brotneE
ke9t sep " small farm up =, in ,be 5ee ePsiisades s
the Hudson, and Peter SAID:
Next week goes oop to see Han
and my wife she goes along, TOO, SO
brings you pig home, Mr.. Dopbs-
'Goodr said ]. IN pay your IL
for your trouble, Peter, besides
price of the pig. A good one, nc
None of snub -nosed, pug-eyed ieilo'
YOU know-a sleek intelligent one.'
Yah, said Peter.
A few days later the pig came
inst leaving the house to go down tC
when | met Peter with the pig in
Il got him, Peter remarked-very
necessarily, however, for the pig
nounced the fast in his own behal
Nothing but pig could have sque
so.
Where / put hlmY asked Peter.
oh, put him in the barn, sai'
There is barn attached to our no
but there was nothing in il. Amin
by desire to put the barn to some
full purpose. | bought a COW and pu
in there last summer, but she CAV
milk after the second week, and
sold her. was glad had another
ant for the barn
But Peter shook his head
wouldn't do. A barn was no place
n pig. | would have to have pen
said.
1t would hardly do to let him ri
the garden, suppose, said musir
Can you build pen, Peter2'
Yah. Peter said he could, and so
him off after tools and materials, lea
frs PIG tied to tree by one leg.
ana viewed him with deep interest.
was little fellow, but healthy, as
proved by the capacity of his lunge.
'Mercyf cried Katie; what a nois
makes. He must be hungry, jar
Katie s experience with babies enc
aged her to this conclusion.
When I came home at night the
was fast asleep in his pen on hes
straw, and felt quite pride in hi
had secret hopes Of my own in rega
him, though did not impart thel
Katie. He cost 50, that is, per sc,
pen cost about $40 more, and P'
fare Brought the sum total up to 81
watched the growth of our p
with a high degree of interest.
sWiu pail always stood by the sit
the wood-house door. and, though
not an agreeable oil iect in an est
point of view, / could not for some
get over vexatious kind of curios
to its contents. found strange t
in it sometimes viewed as articl
food; one of Fred's boots, for inst