XXX. Pig Frightfulness 



BEATRICE continues to make her presence 

 felt on the farm. A few days ago a boy 

 whose mind was not synchronising properly 

 with his body was doing chores. While his 

 body was getting oats for the horses his mind was 

 tilting with Wilfrid of Ivanhoe or "running a course 

 with grinded lances" with Richard the Lionheart, 

 or the knight of the Couchant Leopard. As he was 

 away back in the Dark Ages his mind could not be 

 expected to make his body attend to such trivial 

 things as shutting granary doors in the last days 

 of 1917. He left the granary door open. Beatrice 

 saw her opportunity and heaved up her bulk among 

 the bags and the bins. Shortly afterwards another 

 boy of a tidy nature happened to be passing the 

 granary. As his mind was right up to the needs of 

 the minute he shut the door without looking in- 

 side. Presently word was brought to me that Bea- 

 trice was lost. I ordered a search on the sideroad 



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