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will give her her supper presently." Soon after he 

 sallied forth, and did what he had promised himself, by 

 severely whipping the pig, and leaving it for the night 

 without food. 



The next morning it was again stated that his pig 

 was in the pound, and he replied that he would soon go 

 and give her a breakfast ; but fulfilling his word in pre- 

 cisely the same manner as he had adopted on the former 

 night. Several hours now elapsed, and once more he 

 heard of the incarceration of his pig, when, with equal 

 coolness, he said she should speedily have her dinner, 

 which proved to be only a third castigation. He now, 

 however, paid the dues, and the animal was liberated. 

 The reader, perhaps, can predict the result ; from that 

 day forward the pig roamed about and fed wherever she 

 pleased, nor was it ever in the power of the villagers 

 and the experiment was tried more than once to put 

 her again into the pound. The crafty and dishonest 

 owner calculated on her power of recollection, and that 

 with the utmost effect. 



It would seem, moreover, that this animal is sometimes 

 capable of strong attachment to man. Lockhart, the 

 biographer of Sir Walter Scott, describes a large party as 

 ready to set out from Abbotsford on horseback ; and 

 " the sociable," he says, " was just getting under weigh," 



