Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-11
WORKING A HOG.
The Whole Town Caught the Idea When
 It Was Too Late.

The Whole Town Caught the Idea When
 It Was Too Late.
 When I entered the village, situated among the hills of New York, at 10 o'clock in the morning, all was peaceful and serene, andthe pocket of every man who walked the streets had chink in it When l left, at D. m, an excited mob had possession of the main street and every other man was dead broke.
 About noon a man arrived from the north in buggy He said he was a drover and looking for hogs He bought half dozen be- fore be ate dinner, and it was astonishing how closely he guessed at their live weight. He was within two pounds on four of them and only half a pound more on the others. These had been an attraction for a crowd of idlers, and the general verdict was that the drover was as sharp as barbers razor. Soon after dinner a farmer looking boy drove hog into town and staked him out in front of the tavern As he wanted to sell and the drover wanted to buy, they soon came to- gether.
 Might take him on pinch, but he's only O nubbins, said the drover as he sized the porker up.
 'Nubbinsl Why, that pig goes over 200 poundsI" exclaimed the owner
 Cant stuff me. boy I've been in the business twenty years"
 "No one wants to stuff. That ere hog goes to 2l0"
 "He does, ehl Wish your father had come in. I'd like to made bet with him Boy, you ought to have better judgment That hog won't pull down lS0.
 'Guess you are of, too" remarked a stranger who had quietly driven up in a buggy Eve raised hogs all my life, and that boy hain't five pounds out of his guess. "
 "Ain't hef Raised hogs, have you2 Ever raise any moneyf"
 "A little"
 "Perhaps you'd like to bet on that hogF
 "Perhaps"
 Have you got S20 as says he goes 2007'
 "l have-ffty-a hundred"
 'Then let's chalk. Anybody can blow"
 It was a chance to make dollar, and the citizens improved it. The man in the buggy was an accommodating chap, and somehow or other the farmer boy managed to fish uI about hundred dollars from the hind pocket of his overalls. The citizens stuck by tho drover, having abundant proofs of his judg ment, and when every man in that town who had loose dollar or could borrow one hac made his bet the hog was driven to the scale. and weighed.
 Gentlemen" said the droyer just befor, the weighing, "l was never deceived in my life. This hog won't go to l90 pounds"
 ''I'll take even bets that be goes over 200, 1 replied the man in the buggy. | This bluff raked out the last nickel in tht crowd, and the hog was driven upon tn, scales. The record was 2ll pounds. He wa weighed and reweighed, but the figure stood
 "Well, it's my first error in a hog" said th drover, and all bets were at once handed over The farmer boy slipped out, the two mel drove of in the buggy, and half an hour hac elapsed before church deacon, who had lai, his ten with the drover and lost, suddenl, declared that it was put up job to skin tn town
 ''Durn my buttons if it hain'tl' yelled 20 men in chorus, but it was too late. The tow had been skinned, and the trio had escaped All the mob could do was to turn loose ant wreck an old vinegar factory and pass res olution to the effect that liberty was a shan and a delusion.-New York Sun