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dred new-weaned pigs, within six or eight miles 
of my place, at about $1.50 each, and they would 
_ have grown into fat profit by fall; but I would 
not take a risk that might bear ill fruit. I had 
slight depressions of spirits when I visited my 
_ piggery during that summer; but I chirked up 
a little in the fall, when the brood sows again 
_ made good. But more of that anon. 
