The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-06
PYLE FAMILY PIG.
How It's Marvelots Memory at Last
 Led to It's Undoing.

The Pyle family live on the Coyle farm, in northern Pennsylvania. Out of n litter of pigs born on the farm was one that was very small. It was entirely biack The children Of the family took a liking to the black runt and made great pet of it. As it got older it fol lowed the children wherever they wsnt, and they taught ii number of amusing tricks. One thing they were fond of having the pig do was to hunt apples which they would hide in different places about the yard One day they buried an apple in one corner of the yard and sent the pig in search of II. The pig was a long time in getting the apple, but finally worked its way to the corner of the yard and rooted the apple. mp and ate it. Subsequently another apple was buried in another part of the yard The pig, in searching for it, went straight to where it had rooted up the first apple, but, not finding one there, finally located it and dug it up. Apples were thus buried about the yard in diff ferent places, and the pig found them all, but always went first to the place whese it had found the apple on the first occasion, and so on until it had visited every previous hiding place in succession before it hunted up the new one.
 A hired man one day said he would put an apple where the pig wouldn't find it, and wouldn't try to get it even if 1t did find it. He tied weight enough to an apple to sink it and threw it into a dnck pond on the premises, where the water was about two feet deep. The pig went the rounds of ali the former hiding places, and then went grunting and squealing toward the pond. Reach ing the side of the pond, it hesitated moment and then jumped in, dived to the bottom, and came back with the ap- pic in its mouth.
 Whether some one thought the pig was too highly accomplished to spend it's day in rural isolation, and, consequent iy, femoved it to more appreciative circles, or whether bear, unimpressed bY porcine genius, had walked off with 1t and eaten it, was not known at the time, but the day after the pig per formed it's feat at the duck pond it dis
 
 could be found, and there was great fermentation in the house of Pyle.
 Three years afterward Farmer Pyle was in the town of Woodruff. Steuben county, N r., on business. Among mum Der of hogs in the pens of farmer lie was visiting was boar that pleased him, and he boughtit. It was small and black, but of good breed It was for warded to Pyle. and he got it in due time. It was driven into the yard, where it stopped, looked critically around the premises for a minute or so, and then, with a grunt of satisfaction, trotted to one corner of the yard, where it rooted few seconds. Then it trotted to another part of the yard, rooted, and then went to other spots here and there, rooting a moment at each of them. Suddenly it trotted to the duck pond, and, jumping in, dived beneath the wa ter When it reappeared and swan ashore it looked disappointed, but Farmer Pyle and his family didn't. They knew that they had recovered their pet of three years before and that 1t hadn't forgotten its home or it's Bricks.
 That was the sort of memory the Pyle family pig had. It was too bad its memory was so good. too, for it led to the pigs untimely death. One day the pig was doing it's apple trick, when a neighboring farmer who had stopped In to see the funny act. stole the apple from the pig and ran with it. This made the pig terribly mad, and it chased the farmer so hotly that he dropped theapple and jumped the fence. More than three months passed before Ithat farmer had occasion to visit the Pyle place again. and the moment the pig saw him it bristled up and went for him. It got the farmer in corner be- fore any of the family could interfere and the farmer had to fight to defend Himself. He gave the pig a tremendous Kick, which sent 1t sprawling and broke one of it's fore legs at the shoulder, and the phenomenal memory of the Pyle family pig had to be eclipsed forever by rifle bullet.--N. Y Sun.
 
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