76 FIVE ACKES TOO MUCH. 



his petitoes are the delight of connoisseurs ; his en 

 trails are converted into delicious sausages ; and who 

 has not read the apotheosis of roast pig? Of a horse, 

 the hide and bones perhaps are useful, but the worth 

 less carcass is only fit for carrion ; dangerous in life, 

 while in death his boiling bones breed a pestilence. 

 Which, then, is the nobler animal ? 



NOTE. My horse has just run away again, and I must go and 

 collect the wagon. 



