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THE DOMESTIC 



PLATE XXI. 



WHICH we have selected for our illustration, 

 was the property of a respectable baker in the 

 town of Kinghorn, in the county of Fife ; and 

 when we got the drawing made a few days before 

 she was killed for the market, she was about two 

 years old. We have chosen her, not on account 

 of any very great purity or excellence in her 

 breeding, but simply as a fair average specimen 

 of a common domestic Pig. She was originally 

 from Irish stock on the female side, but from the 

 county we have mentioned on that of the male. 



There is a curious circumstance which was 

 related to us by the proprietor of this animal, and 

 which we know to be authentic, respecting one of 

 the two Pigs which constituted her first litter. 

 One died, the other survived, and became attached 

 to a Bull Dog, also the property of the person we 

 have mentioned, which it would follow and sport 

 with in a variety of ways. The Pig would also 





