CHAPTER XX. ARE PIGS GEN- 

 UINE EPICURES? 



TENNYSON votary called his pig 

 Maud because it ''came into the 

 garden" so. He was evidently a 

 cousin of the man who called his 

 favorite hen Macduff, and, on 

 being asked why, quoted Shake- 

 speare as his reason. "Lay on, Macduff, and 

 damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!"* 

 A friend of mine in Vermont was surprised 

 one morning to find one of his neighbor's pigs 

 in his garden, though the gate was closed and 

 no hole could be found in the fence. On being 

 chased, the porker revealed his entering place — 

 a hollow log that formed part of the foundation 

 of the fence. 



Being a humorist, my friend at once saw his 

 chance to have some fun with piggie. He 

 managed to fix the fence in such a way that both 

 ends of the log were outside the garden. The 

 surprise and growing bewilderment of the intru- 

 der when he found himself again and again out- 

 side were most comical. A movie reel showing 

 it would have made the man's fortune. 



There are good reasons why pigs come into 

 the garden so; they are crazy for greens — as 

 crazy as woodchucks or cows; and gardens, of 

 course, furnish the juiciest of greens. It has 

 long been known that hogs prosper particularly 

 well in pastures, but it is only lately that the 



