Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — Fun in Old England. [ARTICLE]

Fun in Old England.

A pole thirty feet long and four or five inches in diameter was laid down with one-half its length secured on the shore, the pther half being over the water. At the water end of the pole a large box was suspended with a greased pig in it. Seven men tried fpr half an hour to get at the pig by walking the greased pole. They would take a step or two and then tumble head over heels into the water. The crowd roared with laughter. Finally one of the men walked about half the distance out and made a jump, so that he was able to get hold of the string on the box which opened the trap-door at the bottom and let the pig into the water. Then he had to jump into the water himself, catch the pig and bring it ashore. As the pig was greased this was no easy task, but the fellow finally succeeded, and walked off with the animal, which let everybody know it was alive by shrieking all it could. —Kent Cor. Brooklyn Union.