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THE DOMESTIC PIG, 
PLATE XXI. 
Which we have selected for our illustration, 
was the property of a respectable baker in the 
town of Kinghorn, in the county of Fife ; and 
when we got the drawing made a few days before 
she was killed for the market, she was about two 
years old. We have chosen her, not on account 
of any very great purity or excellence in her 
breeding, but simply as a fair average specimen 
of a common domestic Pig. She was originally 
from Irish stock on the female side, but from the 
county we have mentioned on that of the male. 
There is a curious circumstance which was 
related to us by the proprietor of this animal, and 
which we know to be authentic, respecting one of 
the two Pigs which constituted her first litter. 
One died, the other survived, and became attached 
to a Bull Dog, also the property of the person we 
have mentioned, which it would follow and sport 
with in a variety of ways. The Pig would also 
