Year: 1870




TIE notorious Dom Piatt has been
rusticating during the present summer
His account Of a Saratoga belle is laugh
able, but it is too indecent to publish il
the STANDARD. His account of the sports
at Lake George, is good reading
Here is a specimen, from one of his let
ters to the Cincinnati Commercial:
! SHAVING TIE PIC.


To confess the truth, laughed until
the tears came-not at the race so much
as at the shaving of the pig. To make
the fun, a good sized shoat had to be
secured and every particle of hair shaved
from his hide, and then after greasing
him well, turn him loose to be the prop
erty of the man who could catch and
hold the slippery creature. In addition
to this, there was a prize offered to the
successful pursuer, Of twenty-five dol
lars.


The poor hog thus devoted to the gods
was Of the thin, long.legged, saw back
species well known to the West, that
cannot be penned or fattened. This
race of porkers is encouraged here be-
cause of their taste for snakes that one
time infested these mountains. They
will climb the rocky sides and swim to
the islands in search of this delicacy,
until the snakes have become rare, and
the hogs-to use the expression of a
farmer on French Mountain, "too dern-
ed plenty"


The hog was carried with great
squeals Of wrath and disgust into the
barber shop of the hotel and held down
while being lathered and shaved. Hog
gy failed at first to understand the OBJ
iect of these tonsorial attentions. He
jumped, and kicked, and squeaIed like
locomotive. The barber exhibited the
greatest activity in thus shaving in a
skirmisb, as it were. One of those arm.
cd with brush and razor would take
sight at some unshaven part of piggy
and suddenly rush in and get off CON
siderable hair before the victim caught
him at it and renewed his protest


At last it fairly dawned upon hoggy's
brain that this was process thatall civ
iIized hogs on two legs submitted to,
and he gradually relaxed his active OPP
position until at last be reposed quietly
and seemed to enjoy the Utilization Of
the brush and razor Probably he
awakened to the fact this business was
as astonishing to the feas as to himself
The attendants released their strong
hold upon the subject and everything
was progressing to a pleasant, easy
conclusion, when, suddenly, one of
those whins to which womea and pigs
are subject, seized on tho shavee, and
with grunt and unexpected start he
bounded up, escaping the hands of his
captors, and boiling between the legs of
my friend, old Ringbolt, brought that
distinguished gentleman down on his
countenance, aud then went flying
about the barber shop in search of the
door that was fortunately closed. 1t
was astonishing to see what amount of
running, dodging and furniture smash
ing one hog could do in an ordinary
room. He was again captured and the
shaving concluded.


A hogs hair and bristles are not con-
sidered ornamental, and yet / can not
say that their removal improves bis per-
sonal scenery. His appearance after
the process is somewhat ludicrOus, and
when he was put IN the box to be
creased he looked up from under his
long ears with a certain knowingness
that seemed to say! 81 understand this
sort ofd--d nonsense now, and you
had better quit" The animal was well
creased, and to increase his speed and
sense ofrcsistance, a quantity of red
pepper and ginger, mixed with alcohol,
was applied to the tenderest part of his
body, and the box opened in front of
the hotel.


THE RACE.


TO say that the hog shot out of the
box is but TO ieebly express an account
of his exit from that inclosure. And
how he did run! i never, since | was
born, saw hog make such time. 1t
was one streak ofhog, measuring three
hundred and thirty-seven feet, that be-
ing the length Of the hotel, and long as
the hog was in sight II was flash of
hog and no more. The two or three
hundred pursuers, ranged on each side,
were completely taken by surprise, and
for second stood in mute astonish-
ment. Then with a yell they set off in
pursuit, cheered by the ladies gathered
on the broad piazza and beautiful steps,
who waved their handkerchiefs, each
group encouraging some favored run