Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-08

Mr.. Bowser leaned over the pen and
looked lovingly down on his latest &C.
QUESTION The hog squintod back at him
with one eye and seemed to feel at /
home. BY and by he lay down with
sigh and "woof," and Mr.. Bowser
tiptoed away, with broader smile on |
his face than had been there for week
He had just reached the house to tell
Mrs. Bowser that all Merino hogs were
thorough cosmopolitans, when he heard
a sort Of shrek and fall from the pen,
and, running back, he arrived just In
time to see the hog making another
jump to get out. The bristles ON his
back stood up, his single eye CLEANED
like bicycle lantern at midnight. and
he chanked his teeth in anger.
''Durn your hide. but what's the
matter with your" growled Mr.. Bowser
as he looked the animal over.
The hog quieted down at sound of his
voice, and after walking around the
pen two or three times uttered grunt
Of satisfaction and lay down again.
"By George, but that's funnyl" said
Mr.. Bowser.
"what is itP'' asked Mrs. Bowser,
who had just arrived.
"Why, he was as calm as q frog pond
while / stood here, but the minute
turned and left the pen he went into q
sort of fit and tried to get out. l"
1--WE heard that was the way with
Merino hogs" sagely observed Mrs.
Bowser "They want the company Of q
human being or they won't thrive"
Lets try him again.
They backed away few feet. and the
hog sprang up, with squeal. and leaped
for the top of the pen and fell back with
crash. When they hurried forward, he
presented the same picture as before,
with the addition of an extra kink in
his tail.
"What in thunder d'ye s'pose ails the
critter?" exclaimed Mr.. Bowser as the
hog backed off and kept that cleaning
eye ON him.
'It's just as I said." replied Mrs.
Bowser. "He wants company-the COM
pany Of human being. You were lone
ly for a hog You will have to stand
right here ard give him the benefit of
your society,"
'I'll be hanged if do. The idea Of
a hog cutting up in this fashion. He'll
either quit this tomfoolery or I'll brain
him with the ak. "
You'd better stay out here for two
or three days and nights anyway" sug-
gested Mrs. Bowser.
"Oh, l had. Well, l don't stop ono
minute. If this blamed cIitter thinks
he's come here to run Farmer Bowser,
he can't get rid of the IDEA too aeon. I'll
give him human company before / get
through with him. Let's back or
again.
They backed. They had retreated 60
feet when the hog uttered shrek of
anger or anguish or something ana
caught the top board of the pen with his
fore feet and hung there. As he hung he
shrieked again and again, and while
Mrs. Bowser ran for the house Mr..
Bowser picked up club and dashed for.
. ward. He had bestowed two whacks on
the snout pointing into the air when
something fell ON him and walked all
over him and rooted him over and over
on the grass. II was the hog-the whole
hog-the Merino hog which languished
/ iOk soNiSty. bOb
with Mr.. Bowser, he took turn around
the yard to get the geographical loca-
tion of the front gate. When he had got
it, he took a running jump and carried
: 1t off its hinges. and as Mrs. Bowser
looked out of the window he was whisl-
ing up the road in cloud of dust after
q young man on q bicycle. She went
down to Mr.. Bowser, who was sitting
up, with his back against the pen, and
looking at knothole in the henhouse
door.
, "Well?" she queried.
He didn't reply.
q 80 your Merino hog is gomez
!. He never winked
"What you ought to have done was
!. to have hired some one at $50 q month
to give that hog his society, being you
I couldn't spare the time"
He gaged straight into the knotholt
and wouldn't even scratch when bus
bit him. Mrs. Bowser is not revenge
full wife, and 80 she gave him gentl,
:. pat on the head and left him.
M. QUAD.