Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-03-11

HIS PORkSIiiP IN CLOVER.
Fed On Plumb Pudding Twice Across the
Pacific.

,,i some months ago Captain Morse, of the
Hiar,ieuh, frIarS was chatsed by a stock raising
aristoGratic pig TO improve the blood Of
Sne pieDelan Australian swine, says the
a Sam rfaSnclsco Chronicle. The steamer
board the Alameda two months ago. He
was dainty little thing, with a pink nose
ana a contiding way that won the hearts
oil the passengers before the steamer had
crossed the bar He sGuealed so patheti-
cally when the time for seasickncss came
that the captain yielded to the passengers'
ln'etSessi9h III, and took him out of his box
on the deck They tied a blue ribbon
around his neck and presently the curl
Dcame back to his dear little tail and he
warmed his cold pink little nose in the
hsbtl hand Of r, the prettiest passenger in the
cabin. car N; There was baby on board. but
the child did not get half the attention that
was bestowed on the dainty little pig that
squealed so delightfully."- whenever the roll
inS .,. Of 81, the vessel tumbled him off his doubt
tul little legs, On the third day out they
had plum duff for dinner on the steamer
ana seven women and four men surreptit-
iously slipped the pudding from their plates
into their napkins and stole away from the
table. They met at the little pigs box and
began to feed the sweetmeats to the infant
You'll You'll kill that poor little thingr..
shrieked a mother. "Plum pudding and
he's only three weeks old"
She had some soft bread soaked in sweet
milk. but that wi!lfnl pig hardly noticed it.
from the cabin table to the box on deck
No women and few men left that table
without something for the little pig. The
of her dire prophecy, while the pig got
so fat that his little legs bowed under
him. On the tenth day out the door in the
pigs box was enlarged, as he could no
longer pass it. on the fifteenth day one
end of the box was knocked out for the
same reason. At Samoa they built a new
with delicacies from the cabin continued
and the foreordained sire of noble line
grew in popularity as well as size. There
were iealousies among the passengers over
the pig and charges that he was getting
things that not good for him. The
blue ribbon had long ago become too small
afternoon. The ships physician said it
would not hurt him.
AT last the Alameda reached Sydney and
the passengers fed their pet for the last
time. But when it came to sending him
ashore a stern man in uniform stood in
the way. He did not dispute that this was
the sweetest pig in the world, but the Aus
tralian law was strict and quarantine
regulations could not be disregarded. The
the pig as pork on the hoof." 1t would
take special act of parliament or an
order of court or something of that sort to
get the pig through the regulations, and
while the man who sent for the pig was
trying 10 arrange matters, the Alameda
sailed for home and the pig on her. The
up trip was the same as the down trip for
the pig, and on the arrival of the Alameda
here Captain Morse received cablegram
overcome and that there was no longer
any bar to the pigs entry into Australia.
They opened the door of the box to give
the, pig an outing on the deck, but he
they had to knock the box to pieces to
get him out. on Saturday the Alameda
deck was huge hog. The cabin passen-
gers shifted dlsdainfuly when the wind
blew their way ana make remarks about a
steamship company that permitted swine
deck,