We know nothing more of Ashford, which, as I have said, till late in the Middle Age consisted of a church and two mills and a dene for the pannage of hogs in the Weald.

It takes a longer time for a thick than a thin flitch, and longer in dry than in damp weather, or in a dry than in a damp place; but for the flitches of a hog of five score, in weather not very dry or damp, about 6 weeks may do; and as yours is to be fat, which receives little injury from over-salting, give time enough, for you are to have bacon until Christmas comes again. 807.

Parr was ready to give his name, lest if it were omitted 'Bacon should slily put the figure of a hog on Johnson's monument'; just as 'Saurus and Batrachus, when Octavia would not give them leave to set their names on the Temples they had built in Rome, scattered one of them

Indeed, the story which accounts for the peculiar aversion of the Hebrews to the hog, assumes that it did not originate until about 130 years before Christ, and that, previously, some Jews were in the habit of rearing hogs for the purposes indicated.

He'd beat her out there, put her head between the slip gap where they let the hogs into the pasture from the lot down back of the barn.

I have met," says the professor, in addition, "with some satisfactory instances of the association of fossil remains of a species of hog with those of the mammoth, in the newer pliocene freshwater formations of England.

There were rock-hogs from up the line, and rock-hogs from down the line, men of all nationalities and of almost all ages; teamsters, trail-cutters, packers, and rough-shod navvies; men whose daily task was to play with dynamite and giant powder; steel-men, tie-men, and men who drilled into the hearts of mountains.

my fa-fa-father has brought his ho-ho-hogs to a fa-fa-fair m-m-market.

These hogs at the present time exceeded fifty full-grown animals, and there were twice that number of grunters at their heels.

Among farmers, they produce idleness with its usual consequence, such as houses without windows, barns without roofs, gardens without enclosures, fields without fences, hogs without yokes, sheep without wool, meagre cattle, feeble horses, and half clad, dirty children, without principles, morals, or manners.

It offends my dignity that men should call a hog like Commodus a god.

The hog by chance one morning roamed, Where with new ale the vessels foamed.

I shall be very terse about Tuppy, giving it as my opinion that in all essentials he is more like a wart hog than an ex-member of a fine old English public school.

He bought a pony and a cow and a breeding hog out of the first year's money.

Looking up, he saw a half grown hog near by, and quickly replied, 'Give me the cubic inches of that shote.'

I shall sleep like a hog after this.

If you were to raise the wages of every man in this country from nine to twelve shillings a-week to-morrow, you wouldn't satisfy them; at least, the only ones whom you would satisfy would be the mere hogs among them, who, as long as they can get a full stomach, care for nothing else.'

E. This seemingly trifling circumstance was matter of great surprize and scandal to the Mahometans, who consider hogs as unclean animals, and to whom pork is a forbidden food.

So did we change habits and went to Garthlaxton together, driving the hogs before us.

You'll stick there and raise hogs en masse for free people that can take a trip when they happen to feel like it."

'There ain't no hog about our firmbut as for you,' says he, walking on his tip-toes up to the driver, 'as for you, you cock-eyed whelp, around you go!

An Irishman in the Newcastle district once caught a bear flagrante delicto, dragging a hog over the walls of the pew.

A tempting turnip's silver skin Drew a base hog through thick and thin: Bought with a stag's delicious haunch, The mercenary wolf was stanch: The convert fox grew warm and hearty, A pullet gained him to the party; 100 The golden pippin in his fist, A chattering monkey joined the list.

So that afternoon we wired our agents through the West to start anything that looked like a hog toward Chicago, and our men in the East to ship us every tierce of Prime Steam they could lay their hands on.

"If you and Hawk have got your papers in good shape, the thing will go through like a hog under a barbed-wire fence.