The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-10
a PIG IN A POKE.
An inexperienced Young POrker Gets In
a Tight Place.
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Virginia Chronicle.l
Early on Tuesday morning Young
porker weighing about ninety pounds, IN
quest CT something to eat, followed his nose
into an open space between the old Boston
house and an adjoining dwelling on South
B street The space where he entered was
not more than five or six inches wide ana
gradually narrowed TO about three inches
in the rear of the housas/ Here stood tue
objective point-a swiu barrel filled with
potato peelings, green corn huskS ana olHsi
/ edibles tempting to the porcine palate
something really Offal nice, as the girls say.
/ The hungry pig went for the swlH barrel
vent as far as he could-but failed to reach
! if for the convergement of the walls OF 1
/ both houses left too narrow a space. h /
was q heroic and gallant pig, now
ever, and he made deperate enofS
to reach the prize. with snout upillUeI eNu
nostriIs dilated by the delicious odor OF Ier-
menting fat. cabbage leaves and cohee
grounds-with dorsal bristles erect as those
of any other fretful porkupine-he Iungeo
and nlunged and wheeze1 and squeezed ana
snorted and cavorted-till he was wedged,
damned in so tightly that to move an lncn
backward or forward was simply imposslDle
Then the proud heart within that prlnceiy
MO ouailed What previous pig had darea
and dome that would he boldly tackle, Du1
- when it came to moving houses from Inelr
r foundations he fiunked-he wasn't con-
!
% he had contracted headache, and IN ileu Oh
. the snort defiant there welle1 out the squeai
u suppliant Beginning like the far-on melooy
o of the meadow lark, it rose quickly 10 par
IS value with the ear-pierCing, bowei-scraplhg
shrek of a locomotive coming INTO Town
G three-quarters OF second oehlno scdeG'1
time.
he An the people living in that block were
he ON hand and each man submitted pre-
he scription Several of them were trled VIII
out in any degree tending to unconstipate
the pig, He seemed proned to swell, IKE
II poisone1 pup. And still he squealed.
'e Word was sent to the corporation mouse
OF and Chief Pennison appeared with the en-
nv tire effective force of the fire department.
10 Pete FITZGERALD tried to poke the pig out
with a hook and ladder pole, but the thing
could not be done The pig squealed how
srs ever Bill Flaherty, who although a Vougt
en- and sinewy lad, is as slim as q nounuer
zoo Jxedoed himself in sideways until within
~ raac6 of the animals tail. The gallant fire
en- man felt about, but the stupid pig. uncon
err scions that it was a friendly hand that wa
proping astern curled up his tail IKE
~ corkscrew and keptlt SO. IL TOOK Inre )
quarter inch rope and two stout men
null Fireman Flaherty out OF the hole. An
III still the pig squealed onl
an An attempt was then made to pass moo:
ere around his neck from the roof OF one Oh u
houses which was accomplished, but Whel
the pig out the moose would Zip over
head All attempts to dislodge him failing
Inv the tired residents in the vicinity retired
had about midnight, but found 1t lmposSlD Q
our to sleep For the pig slept not-he ST
the souealed-ma1ly, drear1ly-some peop
ON said damnably.
Il Early Wednesday morning the efforts
'i'" rescue the prisoner were renewed. He W
ma growing gradually weaker, and must
the dislodged before death ensued, as the d
c,bt weather would soon entail putre faction a
q reduction of rents in the nelghborhot
Two large property owners were sehG
late in the afternoon, and they advised
or,nIovment of a carpenter to cut b
through one of the buildings opposite
q in ,,orlz vein. and stope him out in that way
was SUPERINTENDENT Sam Jones suggeste ed
ence Burleigh drill and a giant powder
he fridge. and a Skibbereen Afghan SAID:
don't think yezn want the dhrll SIR,
ling. the earthridge would .5 sc very Suy well
, the idea was discarded.
she Jake Steffen the butcher, said he dlt
en- a think that pig would have any spare
ring about him when he got out of that scraps
The prospect looked blue for the pig.
anita sun was going down. and there he was
lank with hunger and hoarSe from SOU
, ex. inc. At this juncture a stranger arri
| 'em on the ground who proved to be the mar
? you the hour Selling long scantling he "
was to the rear of the building and pushing
And through the aperture forced the pig
this back ward, and by turning him over
what yay several times finally got it near eno
Ike a to the entrance of the space to admit
little, at tha5 cad, catching 1T by the leg and
mt in leasing it from its long Imprisonment
bread soon as his rescuer let go the pig ran gr
where inc away in search OF provender to I'LL
the large vacancy made by tbs squee
but process he had been undergoing for ne
de of forty hours.