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slaughtered all the pigs. To give you any sort or 

 kind of idea of the squealing and noise that went 

 on during this operation is quite past my art ; I can 

 only compare it to a hundred pipers let loose at a 

 Highland gathering and all playing different airs at 

 the same time. I cannot say that I saw all the pigs 

 killed, but I saw a great many, and, curious to say, 

 there was not as much blood spilt from the whole 

 number as there would have been from the shaving 

 of one English pig at Christmas. All these Roman 

 pigs, from being stuck with a stiletto in the heart, 

 bled inwardly. The number killed on that day was 

 three thousand seven hundred, and it is a curious 

 fact that every pig was jet black ; and those who 

 had bought them, or to whom they belonged, were 

 the whole day carrying them away in carts, when 

 they would be salted, and made into hams, bacon, 

 and Roman sausages. 



There was close to this pig-killing establishment 

 the slaughter-house for cattle, which was, I thought, 

 perfect in its way, and so different from the untidy 

 and brutal ways used in this country that I shall 

 give a short description of it. The animals to be 

 killed had simply their heads tied up to a beam ; a 

 man, with a sort of mallet made of chestnut-wood, 



