The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-03-28
HIS PO2KSHIP IN CLOVER.
Fed on Plum Pudding Twi r. Across the
Pacific.


Pacific.
Some months ago Capt Morse, Of the
| Alameda, was charged by stock-rais
ing friend in Sydney to bring him over
an aristocratic pig to improve the
blood of the piebian Australian swine.
The steamer captain found the pig and
brought him on boad the Alameda
| two months ago. He was dainty lit
| tie thing, with pink nose and con-
| tiding way that won the hearts of the
| passengers before the steamer ha
crossed the bar. lie squc lled so pa
| thctically when the time for seasicl'
ness came that the captain yielded &c
| the passengers intercession and took
him out of his box on the deck. They
| tied a blue ribbon around his neck and
presently the curl came back to his
dear little tail and he warmed his cold
| pink little nose in the hand of the
prettiest passenger in the cabin.
There was baby on board, but the
| child did not get half the attention
that was bestowed on the dainty little
| pig that squcaled so delightfully."- when
ever the rolling of the vessel tum-
| blcd him off his doubtful little legs.
| On the third day out they had plum
! duff for dinner on the steamer and
seven women and four men surrepti
tiously slipped the pudding from their
! plates into their napkins and stole
'iway from the table, They met at the
little pigs box and began to feed the
| swcetmeat to the infant porlier. An
alarmed cry checked the feeding
You'll kill that poor little thing"
shrieked mother. plum pudding,
and he only three weeks old.''
She had some soft bread soaked in
sweet milk but that willful pig hardly
noticed it. After that there was a
regular 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 fullfillment 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 new and larger
box. The daily pilgrimage with deli
cacies from the cabin continued and
| the foreordained sire of noble line
grew in popularity as well as size.
There were jealousies among the pas
sengers over the pig and charges that
he was getting things that were hot
good for him. The blue ribbon had
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with some blanc mango one afternoon
The doctor 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 uni
form stood in the way. He did not
| dispute that this was the sweetest pig
in the world, but the Australian law
was strict and quarantine regula-
tions could not be disregarded
The officer insulted everybody by
| speaking of the pig as pork on
! the hoof" 1t 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 try
. ing 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 arrival of
the Alemeda here Capt Morse received
a cablegram advising him that the diff
ficulties had been 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 could not
even get his head through, and they
had to knock the box to pieces to get
him out. The Alameda sailed for Aus
tralia and in a large pen on deck Wa
a huge hog. The cabin passengers
shifted disdainfully when the wind
blew their way and made remarks
about steamship company that per.
mitted swine on deck. Francisco
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