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ons ; a pig never kicks people, nor dashes out their 

 brains, nor drags them by stirrups, nor does other 

 such disagreeable things, but is gentle and sweet 

 tempered; he is all good. A boar s head was the 

 famous dish of antiquity ; his hams, and shoulders, 

 and sides enable nations to carry on war, ships to go 

 to sea, and commerce to exist ; his bristles help us to 

 keep our heads and clothes clean ; his skin bestrides 

 his competitor and then, upon the classic rule of 

 a part standing for the whole, he is in his right place ; 



