Year: 1873

/ do not like pork as an article OF
diet, but as a means ofpromoting an ap-
petite / feel no hesitancy in recommend
ing it.


Who owned the particular pig which
promoted my appetite most could never
be found out. Every few days an in-
sane man would be raving around with
a hatches, and q gun and dog, inquir.
ing who owned that pig, and nothing
was ever found out about it except that
the pig belonged to one Of the neighbors.
One OF the neighbors ought to be
ashamed OF himself whoever he is. /
never knew what that pie wanted around
our house. He seemed to be looking
for something; in the flower beds,
among the potatoes, in the poultry yards
and once or twice he walked in at the
front door. He was looking for some
thing, and he found everything. l should
think, except the cellar drain; but he
still wore q sadly dissatisfied slr. 1t
finally occurred to me that the pig
thought the fence ought to be fixed
and as wanted to do something TO
satisfy him. went ont the next morn
Ing and collected all the broken boards
and things could find and fixed the
fence, aud after it was all done the pig
was following me toward the house for
breakfast. l did not know where he
got iu, and he did not know, but | made
up my mind he must find the place.
He was willing enough to look for it,
and chased him through the currant
bushes and over q table cloth spread
out to bleach, and 10 among the dshlias
and over the onions. and everywhere
else, but he didn't find the hole he
came in at, nor did l. However, | had
an appetite for breakfast.


Then Maria came out and stood on
the back steps, like female Napoleon,
and issued orders and proclsmations
and geneneral directions with the rap.
idity OF chain lightning, aud. with a
beautiful and implicit trust in Provi-
deuce, threw fire bricks and coal
shovels and sad irons and stove werches
snd broken crockery with her left hand
and if her right hand knew what the
left was doing it knew pile more than
/ could keep track Of. The pig upset
a hen coop and stepped on three chick
ems, and made q maniac OF the old hen,
who blamed me for the whole affair.
and acted accordingly, and then the pig
got into the corn and refused to come
out under any circumstances, although
/ had given up the idea OF finding
where be came in, and had opened the
gate and let down the bars. Maria
went into the house for some furniture
to throw, and l tried 10 set the dog on
the pig. The dog had learned to re.
gard the pig as one Of the family, and
could not understand my illusions, and
finally got out Of patience and inserted
a fine set OF natural teeth in my left leg.
He did not get the wrong pig by the
ear, but 1t amounted to the same thing
30 far as / was cnncerned. Maria
came out with a broom, and explained
the situation to the dog, and the dog
went into the corn after the pig, and
came back in thirty seconds a bank
rupt community. had appetite
enough for q week. Finally / borrow.
ed two boys from a neig hbor. and the
grocers man, and we drove the pig out.
after he had tramped down all the
corn, and he made for place 10 the
picket fence where there had never
been hole. and just made one and
got out My appetite would have JUS
tilted me in eating that pig. but circum-
stances would not allow. There used
to be some poetry about "Who is my
neighbor and that's what l want to
to know-the neiehbor who owns that
pig.-Uhiea IN ~ Herald.