A critic says that the pitc is the great •civiliser of the Pacific, and that no preaching against cannibalism has been so effective as placing before the natives a more dainty •dish than man. A countryman was shown Gainsborough's celebrate 1 picture of “ The Pigs." “To be sure,” said ho, 11 they be deadly like pigs ; but there is one fault—nobody over saw three pigs fending together but what one on ’em had a foot in the trough, ”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 754, 29 September 1876, Page 4
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