There are light low tables and chairs, a family of guinea pigs in a large cage, and there is a cupboard which the children can reach.

"His Excellency the Governor-General, an official who has love for neither England nor the pigs of English.

The village detective soon coupled the feet of the missing pig with the unusual occurrence of a heap of bones before the door of the musician's abode, and by a process of reasoning unknown to the detectives of the present day, decided that those bones were a pig's bonesa stolen pig's bones, from the fact that the Piper did not earn enough to indulge in such luxuries as sucking-pigs.

And just as the farmers back home fatten a pig for market, so the girls are fattened and sold for slave wives.

The day before he wrote to one of Mrs. Thrale's little daughters:'I live here by my own self, and have had of late very bad nights; but then I have had a pig to dinner which Mr. Perkins gave me.

He left his guinea pig at his boarding house as he went by, but he said nothing about the other creature, so I knew he did not know it was there.

The Anoplothcridoe are intermediate between the first and the last; but this does not tell us whether the Ruminants have come from the Pigs, or the Pigs from Ruminants, or both from Anoplothcridoe, or whether Pigs, Ruminants, and Anoplotlicridoe alike may not have diverged from some common stock.

Thus, a lion is scratched on the grave of a man named Leo; a little pig on the grave of the little child Porcella, who had lived not quite four years; on the tomb of Dracontius is a dragon; and by the side of the following charming inscription is found the figure of a ship: NABIRA IN PACE

Shortly afterwards, catching up a sucking-pig by the tail and snout, he manipulated it precisely as the player did the accordion, producingaccordion to the testimony of several credible witnesses,strains quite as good as, if not worse than, those drawn out by that musician.

When I finally left them on the following day, we had become such good friends that I was compelled to accept a tamed wild pig as a present.

"They were coming to bite me," said Robin quickly, while it struck him as funny that the boy should knock the pigs about himself.

He crowds to the Bar like a pig through a hedge, and his gown is fortified with flankers about the shoulders to guard his ears from being galled with elbows.

"It sounds more like the squeal of an iron pig than any thing else.

Put the pig into cold water directly it is killed; let it remain for a few minutes, then immerse it in a large pan of boiling water for 2 minutes.

He also gave them plenty of sour milk, which pigs like better than sweet milk.

For the pickle boil a little milk and water, a few bay leaves and a little salt; when it is cold take your pig out of the cloths and put it into the pickle; you must shift it out of your pickle two or three times to make it white, the last pickle make strong, and put in a little whole pepper, a pretty large handful of salt, a few bay leaves, and so keep it for use.

Squealing like a pig under a gate won't remedy the matter.

THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF PIGS IN GREAT BRITAIN is supposed to exceed 20 millions; and, considering the third of the number as worth £2 apiece, and the remaining two-thirds as of the relative value of 10s.

There are pasture-lands where stock will fatten like pigs without any other feeding; there are fertile soils which will raise almost any crops, and there are intelligent Indians who can be taught to work and be useful members of society.

She's a good plain wench, that will do as I will have her, and bring me lusty Boys to throw the Sledge, and lift at Pigs of Lead: and for a Wife, she's far beyond you: what can you do in a houshold to provide for your issue, but lye i' bed and get 'em?

So he obeyed his third notion, which was to jump to where a big piece of dead wood lay, pick it up, and hit the foremost pig across the nose with it.

This accident led to the first order being issued by the provosts, to the effect that breeding pigs within the town was forbidden.

Then on another occasion we read: "Onions and Pigs For Sale."

And yet we were congratulated upon our good fortune, in being accommodated in the Berenice, being told that the Zenobia, which passed us on our way, had been employed in carrying pigs between Waterford and Bristol, and that the Hugh Lindsay was in even worse condition; the Berenice being, in short, the crack ship.

We were well satisfied with the profit we derived from our pigs during this second six months.