HOW A PIG SUDDENLY BECAME PORK.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4863, 11 August 1884, Page 2

HOW A PIG SUDDENLY BECAME PORK.

In a new boot just published/MrThil. Epbinson gives the following graphic description of h owl a pig suddenly became ■\. pork- at a^i^killihif^egUWUhinent in C!»icago. We should-besojrJ^St^Jrb'achv - for the precisaaccur A.':livjly ; ;;piebald;;pockeiy|ra^^^ ■;. number; gruntingand q^ar|*lUj(ij|;mit peo, ■'and.' I'''Was^aiskea;:;tb-:^p7?ly^'r^.-faini, ■". What happened- tO;that;porker was this. Ho waa suddenly seizediby a bind leg and J eJ ke(l uP .*? a s™a!' Ofane. ,;j This, awung V himinto a fatal door through which ho pig ever returns. On the other side stood a, man. That two-handed iengineitthe^ door sfand ready to smite once "arid smite no more, and then the deaid pig shot across a trbu»h and through another doorway, '-. and, then there wa3 a splash. He'had fallen headfirst into ayat of boiling #ater. Some unseen machinery passed him along swiftly to the other end of ttio terrifid bath|> and there a water-wheel picked him up i and flung -him: on a axsloping^^ flore • aopther machine seized;.him and ; with one revolution scraped him as bald %: as a nut. -And down the counter he went losing his head as be slid past a man witha hatchot, and then presto he was up again, by the heels.; In one dreadful handful a man emptied him, and whil© another squirted hinx with fresh wateiy the pig registering : : . his own^weight as'her passed the toller's[box, shot down the 7 steelbar from which he bung, and whiskelA round the cornet into the ice-house. • 6ne^ long cut 'with a knife made' two side* °^ pork but of that piebald pig.' TwoVhaoks of a hatch brought away bis backbone. And there thirtyfive seconds from his last : 1 grunt—dirty, hot headed/ noisy-i-the pig was hanging up in two pieces, ckan, tranquil, iced! ;The very,rapidity of:the; whole process robbe^ j t :xi^its hprrorß: Sere oae moment 7 wasVanrppinionatiw piehalaV Pig, .making a pro^igioagfass about having- his hind leg^taken hold of, and lo! before he had jDdaiie up his miodr ta squeahorpnly squeak Be was^liinaine up m a^ce-hciiise; split in; tiro. Heiiad * resented^ the first trifling liberty that was taken with him, and in thirty.five seconds S?-^"i ready for the cook.—LiTerpool■jUailyPost.-.-: v :■:-:.<:■':'.^:[/;;' f;---', ;:V- T■:■-.,. ■;'■-.•