If the famous paint- root of Florida, which kills white pigs but not black ones, were abundant and certain in its action, black pigs might be substituted for white in the course of two or three years.

But let me try to forget that side of it, and remember, rather, as we leave the smells behind, that the calcined bones become artificial manure, and go back again into the tortured fields of France, while other bye-products of the factory help the peasants near to feed their pigs.

And they bought an owl and a useful cart, And a pound of rice, and a cranberry-tart, And a hive of silvery bees; And they bought a pig, and some green jackdaws, And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of ring-bo-ree, And no end of Stilton cheese.

"Kaviak!" he called, "you take warnin' "'Wen yo' see a pig agoin' along'" Look here: Kaviak's never seen a pig!

There is no law against one losing one's pig.

They forced them into a pigsty, from which they had driven out the only pig.

" Miss Laura saw that Mr. Wood and Mr. Harry were doing all that could be done for the cow and horse, so she wandered down to a hollow at the back of the house, where the Englishman had kept his pig.

The scene is graphically described thusly "Tom, Tom the Piper's son, Stole a pig, and away he run.

The rope uncoils of itself, but being firmly fastened to the bamboo, it brings up the pig at each bush, and tears and lacerates the wound, until either the spearhead comes out, or the wretched pig drops down dead from exhaustion and loss of blood.

He gave two pigs and a saddle, that's what my mother said.

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.

Paul and Virginia, the one aged seven, and the other barely four, seemed made of some precious material; she carried them pig-a-back, and was greatly mortified when Madame Aubain forbade her to kiss them every other minute.

I took part in Arochuku feasts where we ate 'long pig,' that is, men and women.

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.

We got a line of elephants, and two or three friends came to assist, and in one day, and round one village only, we shot sixty-three full grown pigs.

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

William Brown says (38) that mothers showed none of that doting fondness for their children common elsewhere, and that they suckled pigs and pups with "affection."

He did not find any wild pigs; but before long he sighted a big deer with many-branched antlers.

"Yes, I want a pig very much!"

The cook takes the pig from the stye and the apple from the tree and makes a pretty lyric for the dinner-table.

I supped with him often on a sucking-pig, for the Christians breed pigs in this place, to the horror of pious Mussulmen.

Not that I sent the pig, or can form the remotest guess what part Owen could play in the business.

Heaped upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and great bowls of punch.

and I say to myself: "Steady now: the man is going to town to sell a pig; he is coming back with ten pounds of sugar, five of salt pork, a can of coffee and some new blades for his mowing machine.

"We raised a pet pig.