ESSAY ON SWINE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 454, 19 January 1869, Page 3

ESSAY ON SWINE.

Josh Billings gives the following " essa on to swine" : —Hogs generally arc quadriped. The extreme length of their antiquity has never been fully they existed a long time before the Flood, and hey existed a long time since. Thare h a gr.;at deal ov internal revenue in a bog; thare ain't much more waste in them than thare is in an oyster. Even their tails can be worked up into whissels. Hogs are good, quiet boarders; they always eat what is set before them, and don't ask any foolish questions. They never have any disease but the measels, and they never hev that but once ; once seems to satisfy them. There is a great many breeds amongst them. Some are a close corporation breed, and' some are built more apart, like a hemlock slab. They used to have a breed in New England, a few years ago, which they called the stripped-hog breed. This breed was in high repute among the landlords; almost every tavern-keeper had one, which he used to show to travellers and brag on him. Some are full in the face like a town clock, and some are as long and lean as a cow-w;itcher, with a steel pointed nose on them. They kan awl rute well; a hog that can't rute well haz been made in vain. They are shortlived animals, and generally die as soon as they git fatt. The hog can be larnt a great many cunning things, such as histing the front gate off from uQB niuges, tipping over the swiu barrel, and finding a hole in the fence tew get into the corn-field ; but thare ain't any length to their memory ; it is an awful hard work for them to find the same hole to get out at, especially if you are at all anxious they should. Hogs are very contrary, and seldom drive well the same way you are going: they drive most the other way. This haz never bin fully explained, but speakes volumes for the hog.