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his nose pointing heavenward, and never ate a mouthful without 

 Ijing down. Wm. N. Marrow of Lewiston, presented the best flock 

 of sheep, six in number. They award him the first premium of ^2. 

 The second premium, to Joel Moulton of Greene. 



Swine. 



" Like other distinguished personages, the swine is known under 

 a variety of titles. In all solemn, official papers, like the present, he 

 he is styled swine, a learned word of Latin derivation ; in familiar 

 parlance, however, he is known as hog, which is Welsh. When 

 cold in death, he is still hog, but only so long as he retains his 

 integrity, for when cut up by his murderers in barbarous imitation 

 of the Harvard Professor, he becomes ]w)^^. But Avhen addressed 

 personally, his title is chook, which is said to be Persian. 



Besides the pure hog proper, we have the qiiahog, which wears 

 a shell instead of bristles, the hogreeve who holds office, the hedg- 

 hog, seaJiog, &c. Of these, however, it is not necessary to speak, 

 since none have been entered for a premium. 



The genuine swine is unquestionably a noble animal, though 

 greatly slandered. His family is of groat antiquity. Created early 

 in the forenoon of Friday of the first week of the world's existence, 

 (Genesis, Chap. 1. v. 25,) his pedigree is more aristocratic than 

 ours, since man did not make his appearance until late in the after- 

 noon of the same day, (v. 27.) Accordingly, in the early ages, the 

 swine appears to have been invested with a peculiar odoi^ of sanc- 

 tity — with something of that dignity that used to " hedge aboift the 

 person of a king," and the most rigid laws were enacted to prevent 

 the destruction of the species. 



Thus, even the Jews, whose privileges far exceeded those of any 

 other people, were forbidden to eat pork, doubtless that the multi- 

 plication of the race might not be interfered with. After this hon- 

 orable introduction upon the earth, and protection from the flood in 

 one of the best corners of the ark, the hog continued for several thou- 

 sand years to "increase, multiply and replenish the earth." Un- 

 fortunately for him, however, the invention of pork-steaks about this 

 time introduced a new era in the history of the hog. This delicious 



