Now all the
pig family are pink, or pink with black spots, but this
pig child was smutty black all over; when it had been popped into a tub, it proved to be Yock-yock.
I know nothing of where the
pig was either bred or born; but he may have been the squire's for aught I can tell: you know this country better than I do, take my
pig and give me the goose.' 'I ought to have something into the bargain,' said the countryman; 'give a fat goose for a
pig, indeed!
Dag Daughtry drank a seventh quart as he listened, so carried away was he by the sombre sense of romance of this dark jungle event wherein men killed even strangers because a
pig was dead.
Three of his men were out herding the
pigs in one place or another, and he had sent the fourth to town with a boar that he had been forced to send the suitors that they might sacrifice it and have their fill of meat.
"In the matter of Treason the
pig would appear To have aided, but scarcely abetted: While the charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear, If you grant the plea 'never indebted.'
`If it had grown up,' she said to herself, `it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome
pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as
pigs, and was just saying to herself, `if one only knew the right way to change them--' when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
embonpoint of a
pig. Constable Parsons suspected that he had a porcine soul.
But his appearance was no more unusual than the manner of his coming, there to my mother and me as we perched above the angry wild
pigs. He came through the trees, leaping from limb to limb and from tree to tree; and he came swiftly.
Came the sound of paddles, and, next, emerging into the lantern's area of light, the high, black bow of a war canoe, curved like a gondola, inlaid with silvery-glistening mother-of-pearl; the long lean length of the canoe which was without outrigger; the shining eyes and the black-shining bodies of the stark blacks who knelt in the bottom and paddled; Ishikola, the old chief, squatting amidships and not paddling, an unlighted, empty-bowled, short-stemmed clay pipe upside-down between his toothless gums; and, in the stern, as coxswain, the dandy, all nakedness of blackness, all whiteness of decoration, save for the
pig's tail in one ear and the scarlet hibiscus that still flamed over the other ear.
Her breasts advertised at the one time her maturity and youth; and, if by nothing else, her sex was advertised by the one article of finery with which she was adorned, namely a
pig's tail, thrust though a hole in her left ear-lobe.
The birds and the monkey-people went north early in the year, for they knew what was coming; and the deer and the wild
pig broke far away to the perished fields of the villages, dying sometimes before the eyes of men too weak to kill them.
Jake said he might as well take the wagon and haul to market the
pig he had been fattening.