WELL-NAMED ANIMAL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 8

WELL-NAMED ANIMAL

A city visitor was in the country for Ihe first time in his life and while walking round the farm with his host came upon a pig in a mud-wallow. "What’s that animal?” he exclaimed. The farmer told him it was a pig. The city man looked at it with growing disgust and finally said: "M’ell, the blighter's well named.” This little story 1 heard at the Feilding sale from a pig-farmer with a sense of humour, who also told another. M e had been earnestly discussing a very serious loss he had suffered and at the conclusion of the discussion he observed “I should certainly know how to get over the trouble next time.” Then he laughed and said: “Though that remark reminds me of the woman who offered a young mother advice and in proffering her advice declared: ‘There’s mighty little don't know about, children. I’ve buried 15 of my own I’ ”