AN EDUCATED PIG.
■■ ■ • At Epping, on Fridey, Miss Emily Hampton, of Nazeing, was summoned for keeping a pig in a manner which' was dangerous to health. The nuisance Inspector said he found the pig occupying thd whole of one room in the defendant's house. It was lying between clean sheets on a feather bed, covered with a white lace counterpane. Its head rested on a pillow. The room was furnished like a parlour. There were illuminated texts on the wall, and defendant was kneeling down kissing the pig and calling it •• a naughty boy," because it had eaten a email portion of its pillow. A card in the window read " Sixpence to see the pig." Defendant said she had educated the pig to act as a Christian. She had reared it from infancy, and when young it used to occupy a sofa. It always asked to be let out when it wanted to take the froah air. It never kicked the clothes off the bed and was most quiet and peaceable. Ladies and gentlemen came in their carriages to see it. Ihe Magistrate gave defendant six weeks ia which to find fresh lodgings for her pet, which is of considerable weight. — English paper,
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7364, 16 January 1902, Page 4
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203AN EDUCATED PIG. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7364, 16 January 1902, Page 4
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