The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-22
BEFORE SWINE.
BY HENRYNL. KiNER

HolAeT name was more
You change your name to More" sl
, said, and be Hogg no more"
Elias Hogg and Pearl V. Sand sat neat
greenwood tree.
Upon white-barked birchen log sat Hog
ana Peary v.
Beneath the log. In swinish guise of com
Portable squalor.
Or roomy GOODNESS like a cave, a ground
hog had his parlur,
Upon the palld birchen bark of the an
cient trysting log,
Two names were hyphen- hitohed as thus
Pearl Sand Elias Hogg.~
AT poker ffogg had lost V. and he wa
| pretty blue
When she was writing down their name
lost Pearly. too.
Why they made sport of me at school
They gnyed me- said the girl;
They said the sand WAS graveed bad
where there was such Pearl"
"oh. ! could stand fling like that
Elias said, Il feel
That I'd "a had the Sand for that: but
when they grunt and squeal!'
He shook his head and closed his eyes. as
II in awful pain:
| And sighed and moaned and groaned and
wept then did II all again
| Down Hoped the maiden ON the log, the
grounding down below
Felt that crisis had arrived. for sis was
crying So
Since childhoods dawn" he said have
| been made 10 sore repne,
Because my fathers legacy of name be
tokened swine,
when played patty-cake, and rolled
suppostitious dough-
My mothers callers whispered that this
piggy isn't slow;
II he were ovened with the dough. by fall
ing from his sty.
| really think that it would make a pot
fish bit of pie
And once. when playing in the weeds.
the boys quilted me with thistles.
Behold. they yelled, Elias Hogg has
broken out with bristes.'
1--WE had a bee to cut come wood Cor
Widow Ann Melee.
! cut the most. the medal won: Pork
Chops, they yell In glee.
There's Hogg. of Texas once / said;
may it penetrate your pates
That he became the governor Of the big
gest Of our states.
The LongHorn state. they grinned
and said. combined in mutual scorn;
He wasn't any Hogg at all. he was
Unicorn
My saddened soul sought poetry: ] sent
some to a pane;
The editor returned the verse-a most Inn |
proper caper
Hogs can't grunt rhymes. he said, nor |
root the language into meter;
No dope can save q ham like you, nor |
slaughter house salt peter
Another editor declared my verse would |
scare the Caribs.
II l should sign II Hogg He thought I'd
better sign ii spareribs.''
She kissed him then, a long. long kiss.
sprung strong. like bottled soul
Twas Ike the sound the mred COW makes Il
when her hoof departs the hole.
4 sent some flowers to maid a nose
gay gemmed with roses.
/ held a note when il came back. marked
Figweeds are no, Posles'
loved the maid, and said to her: Lee
the oveiight in mine eye
1t isn't that at an she said, IT'S but
little sly
She served you right" snapped Pearl
II guess twas weeds from some oh
meadow"
he grounding was that scared he fell
aud almost smashed his shadow
That was a boyish love, dear Pearl.
love you like man.
is so sweet Of you to give me that re-
naming plan.
ure can face you and request that you |
be Mrs. More.
en- thousand paugs It might have saved. n
had ! done this before
SIX you to wed me as | ann 'Twere
meaner than a dog.
q say; Come. pretty Pearl. and be my
lfe's own little Hogg
hey sat beneath the greenwood tree
upon the birchen log
aid she: "fOull surely have the Sand. |
and be no More a Hogg"
hey kissed beneath the greenwood tree
Cay sang the pollywog' !
q took his knife and cut away. Pearl
Sand-Elias Hogg." =
IT'S well" said Pearl. ito thus raoo,,o
that sandy-Hoggish lore
is prelude Of the day when we'll be
something More" 2
hose hateful names" he said. won't
De writ on our loving billets."
ell have More craven on our spoons.
and pots. and pans, and skinets"
ey kissed again. Just think" said she.
with face arame like the rose. n
low you would seem. Elias dear, with a '
hog-ring In your nose" =.
ey kissed again. No uose-ring caused tt
thc kiss to lop or lnger N
e ring was never on his nose. but on IN
her finger. ~
ey kissed again. Beneath the log the III
grounding crouched Ia wonder. dr
lodged each time the kisses cracked. a,
and tried TO say: by thunder =,
ey kissed again az comfort found. 81 ia
love this ancient log" -
az said. FOR here leave the patronv- III
ME II0gg: in
here ] find ] shah be More. Give me In
that little hand
. Hogz Is dead forevermore. and buried
with the sand
" kissed again. and went their way. 10 -.
seek their names salvation IA
court Elias took his case. The Judge by
whose name was Bull WI
; Verify my soul Tor You with sym A..
pathy Is fun. 10
alb,
llheaded brutes have made me sict- :,
since my prmordlai year.
d coward inuucndoes that I ought tn WI
learn 10 steer. tia
neshbor Roses daughter. Wnd Cwild cos
Rose "a lovely name). -.
brought. because Of me- 10 blush wv
and hang her head In shame wa
loved uy son. ard welded him With me
Tov her heart was fun =
she discovered that Wild Rose uust ~