The news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1882-1891, 1882-06-15
Two-Lexged Pig.

A TwO-Legged Pig.
The State of New Jersey again stems
to the front as a producer of wonders
Not with hermit this time, nor weird
phantom, nor even boojum shark, but as
the possessor of an odd curiosity in the
shape OF two-legged pig, healthy, greedy
and thoroughly piggish in every way
with the exception of being minus two
hind legs.
This libel on human gourmands il
owned by John Yerling, a farmer. living
about one mile from Browns Mills. the
old summer resort on the Mount Holly
branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
is well-known to every one throughout
that section Of Burlington county. II is
one CT litter of six pigs, born nearly
seven months ago, and has been treated
with no extraordinary care, but permit
ted to roam about with its sour-legged
brothers and sisters just as though it was
common pig like themselves, and EMIT
led to the same food and treatment. From
the tip of the nose to the end of the hind
quarters it measures thirty-seven inches.
and the girth of body at the fore. shoulders
is twenty-three inches. The head and
fore, as well as the rest of the body, are
properly proportional until the middle of
is reached, when it begins to taper-off
to point, and ends in a queer little rud-
imentary tail. Where the hind legs
should be the surface OF the body is per-
| fectly smooth, but upon passing the hand
over the parts small lump of bone and
gristle can be felt on each side. There
appears to be no hip bones whatever. and
the spinal column at its extremity widens
out into a sort of fan shape. The tail is
only an apology for tail, of which the
malformed porker seems heartily ashamed.
for when being inspected by visitors he
sits upon it, and gives vent to series of
protesting grunts, besides blinking his
bright eyes and squirmipg about uneasily.
While piggy is great curiosity, because
he possesses the same number of legs as
some of his human brothers, he is still
greater wonder on account of his utter de-
fiance of the laws of gravity and equili-
brium.
Usually be sits contentedly on his hind
quarters and surveys surrounding objects
with an air of the most placid repose.
The music of the slop-bucket splashine
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trough is sufficient to make him drag him
self along by means of his forelegs to get
share of the meal, but when his adipose
parents OF some porcine relatives are for
tunate enough to discover stray ear Of
corn, and makes dash for it, it is then
that the two-legged pig performs feat
that should make the shade of Sir Isaac
Newton, hold up Its spiritual hands in as
constituent. The biped porker, instead
OF dragging himself slowly on the ground,
elevates his hind quarters in the air, and
trots along as rapidly as his companions.
His head is kept well up, and the whole
weight Of the body is seemingly suppor-
ted by the forelegs, by which he moves
forward at funny kind of trot. The
curious creature never loses his balance.
and is able to keep up fairly rapid pace,
and generally manages to come in for 4
fair share of the dainty morsels, grunting
as loudly and pushing in as boldly as
any of the rest.-Pkiladeiphia Press.