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done by neither horse, cow, sheep, dog nor cat. 

 And this should admonish us to provide hogs 

 with warm and comfortable lodging. Their 

 sagacity in providing against cold in the night, 

 when they have it in their power to make such 

 provision, is quite wonderful. You see them 

 looking about for the warmest spot : then they 

 go to work, raking up the litter so as to break 

 the wind off; and when they have done their 

 best, they lie clown. I had a sow that had some 

 pigs running about with her in April last. There 

 was a place open to her on each side of the 

 barn. One faced the east and the other the 

 west ; and, I observed, that she sometimes took 

 to one side and sometimes to the other. One 

 evening her pigs had gone to bed on the east 

 side. She was out eating till it began to grow 

 dusk. I saw her go into her pigs, and was 

 surprised to see her come out again; and there 

 fore, looked a little to see what she was after. 

 There was a high heap of dung in the front of 

 the barn to the south. She walked up to the 

 top of it, raised her nose, turned it very slowly, 

 two or three times, from the north-east to the 

 north-west, and back again, and at last, it 

 settled at about south-east, for a little bit. She 

 then came back, inarched away very hastily to 

 her pigs, roused them up in a great bustle, and 



