"Tom, Tom, the piper's son, stole a pig and away he ran!
Stole a pig? Where are your licences?" said the policeman.
As for King William Island, the Makambo, on the former run of the Cockspur, stopped there every ten weeks; but the direst threat Daughtry ever held over him was the putting ashore of him at the place where the two active young men still mourned their
pig. In fact, it was their regular programme, each trip, to paddle out and around the Makambo and make ferocious grimaces up at Kwaque, who grimaced back at them from over the rail.
"As for me I live out of the way here with the pigs, and never go to the town unless when Penelope sends for me on the arrival of some news about Ulysses.
Thus did they converse, and presently the swineherds came up with the pigs, which were then shut up for the night in their styes, and a tremendous squealing they made as they were being driven into them.
And because of this I take it that the wild
pigs did not get us, that we never fetched bottom; else I should not be here now, a thousand centuries after, to remember the event.
"What name, long time black fella belong Su'u take 'm heads, kai-kai along long
pig?" Ishikola countered.
the roasted flesh of the wild
pig the hunter's arrow failed to slay?
The deer and the
pig had tramped all day in search of something better than dried bark and withered leaves.
By the time this feat had been accomplished it began to grow dark, and Tip remembered he must milk the cow and feed the
pigs. So he picked up his wooden man and carried it back to the house with him.
Treloar, who happened to be sitting next to him, was startled by the abruptness of the attack, and wondered what grounds he had ever given the little man to believe that he could call a woman a
pig.
Sancho got up as well as he could and begged his master to give him his sword, saying he wanted to kill half a dozen of those dirty unmannerly
pigs, for he had by this time found out that that was what they were.