LITTLE ESSAYS.
The Pig. The pig is composed principally of pork, crackling, trotters and bad manners. As a pet 'for the children he is not to be recommended, and the only time he really behaves well in the house is when on a large dish, with plenty of steam and parsnips and stuffing. The pig will eat anything, and generally does. His favorite diet is old boots, flower-pots, coal, coke, saucepans, and cinders. Hs is usually an awful pig. The chief hobby of the pig is eating, and he does this all the time as well as between meals.
Pigs usually die very suddenly, and with a lot of noise. They are then known as pickled pork, roast pork chops, bacon, and hams. The hams of little pigs are called hamlets. Shakespeare wrote a play about hamlets : which some people believe to have been written by Bacon. Pigs don’t like apple-sauce and sage and onion stuffing brings tears to their eyes.
The little loop at the east end of the pig is its tail. This is of no use whatever, either as a handle or to keep the flies off. The little spikes on his back are bristles.
Pigs live in very untidy homes called pigsties, and never by any chance do the pigstidy them up (joke).
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 618, 22 March 1921, Page 2
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