THE PIG GOT WELL
It is customary for parents in the rural districts of the American Southern States to help out the teacher’s salary Jhis is done by giving meat, meal, potatoes—in fact, anything they may have. In a certain community there lived a large family. All the children were in school, but the parents never gave anything towards the salary. ’ One day the oldest daughter, Mary, came up to the teacher’s desk and said: ‘ Teaser, pa gwine sen’ yous a pig.’ * Tell him 111 be more than obliged, said the surprised teacher.
A week or two passed, and the pig did not get around to his house. ‘ Where’s that pig your father was going to send me?’ he asked Mary. ‘Oh,’ Mary replied, ‘ that pig got well.’ '
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New Zealand Tablet, 1 June 1911, Page 1029
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128THE PIG GOT WELL New Zealand Tablet, 1 June 1911, Page 1029
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