AS YOU LIKE IT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)

AS YOU LIKE IT.

-Obvious'y there was a remarkable mix up of type in this report of a church meeting in an American paper " cop - v " ""EES w,th , a " account of a patent pikilling machine which had been tried ?n the town the same day. This was what newspaper recorded: —

•'Several of the Rev. Dr. Hopkins' friends called upon liim yesterday and, alter a brief conversation, the unsuspicious hog was seized by the hind and slid along a beam until he reached the hot water tank. His friends explained the object of their visit, and presented him with a very handsome gold-headed butcher, who gabbed him by the tail swung him round, slit his throat from ear to ear, and in less than a minute I the carcase was in the water. There-! upon he came forward and said, there' were times when the feelings over- ' powered one, and for that reason he i would not attempt to do more than l thank those around him for the manner, in which such a huge animal was cut into fragments was simply astonishing I The doctor concluded his remarks, whe°n ' the machine seized him, and in less time than it takes to write it, the ho« was cut into fragments and worked up into delicious sausage. The occasion will long be remembered by the doctor's friends as one of the most delightful of their lives. The best pieces can be pro- 1 cured for 15 cents a pound, and we are ' sure those who have sat so long under! his ministry will rejoice that he has been treated so handsomely." '