Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — Hon They Got Out. [ARTICLE]

Hon They Got Out.

Uncle Ephraim had two hogs, which he kept in a pen in the rear end of his lot They were of the variety, and although they were fed bountifully with kitchen waste, it seemed impossible to put any fat on their attentuated frames. One morning when he went out to feed them they were not there. They had disappeared, leaving no clue to the manner in which they had made their escape. “What’s the matter, Uncle Eph?” inquired a neighbor, noticing the deep dejection with which the old man was looking down into the empty pen. “My hawgs is gone, sah,” he answered. “Stolen?" “No sah. I don’t see no signs dat anybody tuck ’em.” “Did they climb out over the top?” “No, dey couldn’t ’a’ done dat.’ “How do you think they got away?” “Well, sah,” said Uncle Ephraim, “my ’pinion is dat dem hawgs kind o’ raised delrselves up on aidge an’ crop* through a crack.”