Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1903 — FOR THE LITTLE ONES. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

•4m i i ■ ■— - Tan Pigs Who by Their Clayar Tricks Display Great Intelligence. Stupidity, obstinacy and selfishness are held to be summed up in the phrases “pig” and “pigheaded.” /It is very unjust to the pigs themselves, because there are some very clever porkers in the world. A certain animal trainer, for example, has ten of the most intelligent pigs in the world. They perform a variety of tricks. Formed into two companies, dressed as soldiers, they give a sham fight. One side occupies a fort which is attacked by the other. A cannon is fired, the besiegers charge, capture the fort, haul down the enemy’s flag and run up their own. And not only this; every pig has a special performance. One sits in a rocking chair, another dances on a tight rope, a third walks on a rolling barrel, while a fourth kneels down at the word of command. Two of the pigs run in harness, drawing a cart in which their master sits. He even drives this strange team through the streets.—Chums. Btlck In His Leg. There was at a summer resort a party of friends, among whom was little Joe. One day as they were going up from the beach to the boarding house Joe saw for the first time a man with a wooden leg, and he stopped still and watched the man out of Bight notwithstanding the repeated calls from the rest of the party for him to “come on.” When he arrived at the hotel, he took his small brother aside and said to him: “Do you know you’ve got a stick inside your leg ?” On being assured that his little brother did not know it he said impressively, “Well, you have, and I saw a man on the beach today with the meat all worn off the wooden stick.”