Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1881 — The Southern Pig. [ARTICLE]

The Southern Pig.

One ought to see what the groundwork of all this pork business is. A wild hog down South is a wonderful creation to a Northerner, who is accustomed to see hogs so fat that they can hardly walk. Well, I don’t know as they can walk here, but they can run. See one broadside to, and you would think it weighed 250 pounds, and let it turn about head on, and it looks like a strip of sheet iron stood upon the edge. Nearly all the live ones I saw were black, and about as thin as a board, but when it came to annihilating space, I could see how they were made so thin. The air offers no more resistance to them than a tub of lard does to a cheese knife. I saw one run along by the side of the railroad track, keeping up with the train for about a quarter of a mile, when he suddenly thought he would show us how he could run when he was so inclined, and, gathering himself up, he darted along by the car, overtook the tender, gained a lap on the engine, and crossed the track ahead of it and ran into the woods. If he had kept that gait until we had got into Washington he would have been half way through Alaska. Probably, next to the carrier-pigeon, the Southern wild hog is the fastest bird in the world.

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