Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — The Law Was Satisfied. [ARTICLE]

The Law Was Satisfied.

They tell down East of a poor fellow who owned a remarkably fat hog, and who also owed a rich man.’ The hog was about all the property the poor deb tor ii ad worth -levying on, an d the law exempted a man’s only pig. One day the creditor meeting the debtor said: “You need another pig; let m£ send you a nice little one.” The poor man was astonished. “Why, I owe for the hog I’ve got now,” he stammered. “Never mind, you need another one, and I’ll send it,” and he did; ana the little pig was put in the pen by the side of the fat one. In less than an hour the Constable came and attached the fat hog and took it away, and thus the law and the rich man were satisfied.