Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-23
THE PIG THAT TURNED INTO AGooo FAIRY.

No it isn't an irish story nor a fable
in slang tho many an Ir!shman Of
elder time might have been 1T, not
the pig ye understand but BIZ So
andso.
Bill Soandso worked for wages or
small salary. Fix that TO suit yourself.
Things went rather hard with Bti!
when war broke out and stuff went
sky high. There was the rent and the
groceries and the coal and shoes and
clothes and when Bill got part way
thru he had to quit and wait until next
month.
Sage Bills wife to Bill. Lets keep
couple OF pigs The mayor says we
can If we keep the pen from smelling"
Says Bill to his wife, Forget It Well
buy hog next fall" But when next
fall came hogs were worth pretty
nearly q months wages and Bill could
nj buy the hog. so he didn't and now
and then thru the winter they bought
a chunk at 80 cents a pound and paid
a half days wage for a little pail OF
lard. Bill remarked that Il was hell
without apologizng to General W. T.
Sherman. And It was. Try It.
Next spring they bought two pigs,
put them IN a pen made OF some old
Lee, bn 80 " So Va
skim milk they bought right after the
pigs had been v-eaned and mixed
little meal with It and a spoonful or so
0. oil cake and fed the pigs. She
scrubbed them once or twice in soap
and water TOO. And they throve The
Stops from the kitchen and the gar
bage from the house next door was
greedily and gratefully received at the
pig pen. They got TO be pretty decent
shotes and one day Mrs. Soandso told
Bill that she must have a couple Of
dollars worth OF meal for them Bill
grumbled but ne got the meal. He said
the tut tut pigs would cost him more
than to buy a hog. Still every now
and then they got little feed and
kept the pigs growing and along in the
late fall they bought more and tho Bill
fat.
Well along about the first Of Novem-
Der they butchered those pigs. They
had four hams and as many shoulders
to pack away. They had side meat
galore. The backbones and the spare
ribs held out nobly for fresh. And lard
land sakes the Soandso children had
never believed there was 30 much
lard IN the world. Not to mention
sausage and pigs feet and jowls.
Bill and his wife figured up what the
pigs had cost them. Bill had his feed
bills Says he Them pigs has cost
| nearly $40 for feed alone and I paid
s. a piece for them as weanlings.
That's So agreed his wife, but 400
| odd pounds Of pork is worth hundred
| dollars and Bill you never had 800
ahead in all your life since was fool
| enough to marry you. You wouldn't
| have had a dollar more this second
day OF November A. D. II you hadn't
bought a pig or paid cent for feed
And right here is the hog meat and
there's the lard and the sausage and
plenty before US and the children for the
winter. You are an even hundred ahead
Now William" says she, go and buy
your coal with the months pay. AnG
then we'll save IS month all this
winter and put It into thrift bonds"
So William went forth to buy hi,
coal. He felt SO good over the hos
deal that he stopped and bought cigar.
for half dozen fellows and had {
quarters worth wrapped up to TAX
home where Mrs. Bill WAS trying CD
the last Of the crackllns. And the littl'