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the thick foggy vapors of a " fogie " conservatism, is neverthe- 

 less, destined "by patient continuance in well doing," to 

 overcome all adverse circumstances, and emerging into the 

 light of a better day, cause its own worth to be acknowledged 

 and appreciated. 



The lite of the hog, though not allowed to be strictly a 

 poetic one, yet is not entirely devoid of some points of inter- 

 est, and but for our ancient prejudices might furnish analogies 

 and types, for the pen of the poet, the theologian, and the 

 philosopher. Studied with this view, he might be found to 

 produce metaphorical illustrations of the popular law of pro- 

 gress, the abstruse doctrine of discreet degrees, and the modern 

 dogma of manifest destiny ; besides furnishing a glowing type 

 of that passive character that is sometimes met with at the 

 present day. 



The hog confines himself — with the proper humility of one 

 who knows his place — to the exact sphere that nature has 

 marked out for him, and filling up rapidly the full measure of 

 his pig-hood, he pursues with fidelity the one single object of 

 his existence, viz : to eat, get fat, and be eaten in return. 

 Living a life marked with the virtues of contentment and 

 gratitude, he at last passes to the high and noble destiny, of 

 entering into that close and intimate relationship to humanity, 

 which, by the subtle alchemy of assimilation he is made to 

 become a part and parcel of man's very structure ; in short, of 

 passing from the condition of a hog, to that of a man. 



E. F. BAILEY, Chairman. 



SWINE, 



LESS THAN EIGHT MONTHS OLD. 



Committee. — Messrs. Gilinan Jones, Ashburnliam ; Israel Everett, Prince- 

 ton ; Merrick Whitney, ./Jshbumfiam ; John W. Piper, Ashby ; Wm. S. 

 Do\vne, Thos. S. Eaton, FUchburg ; lieuben Vose, Jr., Baldwinville. 



The Committee on Swine less than eight months old, hav- 

 ing attended to their duty, report that one very fine fat pig 



