The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-05

for seasickness came that the captain yielded to his passengers intercession and took him out of his box on the deck. l They tied a blue ribbon around his neck, and presently the curl came back to his tail, and he warmed his cold pink little nose in the hand of the prettiest passenger in the cabin There was a baby cn board but the child did not get half the attention that was bestow- ed on tie dainty little pig that squealed so deligh fully whenev4r the rolling of the essel tumbled him off his doubtful little legs,
 On the third day out they had plum duff for dinner on the steamer, and seY- en women and four men surreptitiously 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 sweetmeat to | the infant porker. An alarmed cry checked the feeding,
 You'll kill that poor little thingP' shrieked a mother; plum pudding, and he only three weeks old!'
 She had some soft bread soaked in sweet milk, but that Wilful pig hardly noticed it. After that there was reg ular procession from the cabin table to the box on deck, No women and few men left that table without some thing for the little pig. The mother waited gloomily for the fulfilment of her dire prophecy while the pig got so fat that his little legs bowed under him,
 On the tenth day out the door on the pigs box was enlarged, as he could no longer pass 1t. On the fifteenth day one end of the box was knocked out for the same reason. At Samoa they built new and larger box. The daily pill grimage with delicacies from the cabin table continued and the foreordained sire of a noble line grew in popularity as well as size. There were jealousies among the passengers over the pig and charges that he was getting things that were not good for him. The blue rib- bon had long ago become too small and he ate it with some blanc mango one afternoon. The ships physician said 1t 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 stern man in uniform stood in the way. He did not dispute that this was the sweetest pig in the world but the Australian law was strict and quar- antine regulations could not be disre- garded. The officer lnsulted everybody by speaking of the pig as pork on the hoof." II would take a 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 to 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 ar rival of the Alameda here, Captain | Morse received a cablegram advising | him that the difficulties had been oyer- come and there was no longer any bar to the pigs entry into Australia.
 They opened the box to give the pig | an outing on the dock, but he could | not even get his head through, and they had to knock the box to pieces to get him out.
 On Saturday the Alameda sailed for Australia. and In a large pen on deck was a huge hog. The cabin passengers sniffed dlsdainfully when the wind blew their way. and made remarks about a steamship company that permitted swine on deck.