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my stye, and so let liiiii tie his neck with a 

 halter. Also my Will is, that there be made for me 

 a monument, wherein shall be ingraven in Golden 

 Letters this inscription or title, M. Grunter Hog-son, 

 Little-Pig, lived nine hundred ninty-nine years and 

 a half, and if he had lived but one half year 

 longer, he had lived a thousand years. And you 

 my Lovers and best Counsellors of my life, I be- 

 seech you do good to my dead carkase, salt it well 

 with the best season of Nutmegs, Pepper and Hony, 

 that so my name and memory may remain for ever- 

 more. And you my Masters and kindred which 

 have been present at the making of my Will, I pray 

 you cause your marks to be put thereunto. 

 '' Witnesses : 



" AYoodhog's mark. Bristle-backus mark. 



Town boards mark. Mountain hog^s mark. 



Bacon hog's mark, Swill hog's mark. Marsh 



hog's mark." 



In addition to the uses of the various parts of a 



pig's body recorded here, the same author tells us 



that the skin was made into ^'' Shoo-leather, but now 



by reason of the tenderness and looseness thereof, 



they use it not, but leave it to the Sadlers, and to 



them that cover Books, for which cause it is much 



better than either Sheep or Goats' skins, for it hath a 



deeper grain, and doth not so easily fall off."^ 



Most of us are familiar with the sad accident, 

 described by Charles Lamb, which befel the litter of 

 pigs in charge of Bobo, the lubberly son of the 

 swineherd Hoti. It is to this accident, so Mr. Lamb 



* Luc. cit., p. 521. 



