Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — Artistic Mendacity. [ARTICLE]

Artistic Mendacity.

I have rarely had more difficulty in refraining from laughter than when listening to an English gentleman who had recently met toe red-headed exaggeratin' from _ the Lone Star State, writes a New' York correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “America must be a very peoullar oountry, * said he. "Col. Ochiltree told me that the razor-back pigs In the Southern States are very aiflioult to keep fenced In. Frequently in the spring, he says, he’s seen them with sticks tied crosswise in their tails to keep them from crawling through the fences. And the curious disease of the eyes that they have.” “I didn’t know,” I said. “I have never lived in the South.” “Wh—why—why, the pigs roll In the mud and get so covered with it that when it bakes In the sun .they oap’t shut their eyqs. Just fancy! And so their eyes are week and sore until the fallVains wash the mud off.” “Probably those are the famous pigs of which It takes two to make a shadow," I observed, thinking that the chestnut collection might. as well be complete. “Oh,” said my acquaintance with an injured air, “you—you —you cawn’t hoax me. Col. Ochiltree wouldn’t tell a story like that.” ’ 4 Probably he wouldn’t. The Colonel is an artist. <