He seemed nervous and irritable, like a man who had not slept, and he said to me crossly: "'If you go on like this you will end by spoiling the affair of that pig of a Morin!
On getting to the Fanal office, I saw a crowd waiting for us, and as soon as they saw us they all exclaimed: 'Well, have you settled the affair of that pig of a Morin?
He received us with open arms and congratulated us and wished us joy; he was delighted at having the two editors in his house, and Rivet whispered to me: 'I think we shall be able to arrange the matter of that pig of a Morin for him.
I saw Rivet coming toward me, and, standing in the middle of the path, he said without even smiling: 'So that is the way you settle the affair of that pig of a Morin.
Tis not the nature of a pig to keep quiet with a dog at his heels.
A short time afterwards the oldpig died, and the little pigs went to live in their own houses.
Now the time came when the mother pig felt old and feeble and near her end.
Their kindness I will not precisely dispute; they readily invite a stranger to share their hospitality, and even kill a pig in his honour, give him a part of their couch, etc.
And you may sup upon cake and custards--unless you give the custards for the little pig out there--he will want something.
I held my cloak together as well as I could, and kept myself back a little, so that if the pig shewed a cloven foot behind me, the captain might not see it.
It was just peach time, and the littlepig was very hungry.
Then Mr. Man took the little pig under his arm and went back through the orchard with him to his house.
Well, said Mr. Crow, there was once a lot of little pigs that lived in a large pen with the big mother pig and were very fat and happy--all but one.
At last the little runt pig made up his mind that he would run away and be a wild pig such as he had heard his brothers and sisters talk about sometimes after supper.
Here's a little runt pig I found stuck fast in our fence," he said to Mrs. Man when he got there.
So he grew and grew, fatter and fatter, and every few weeks they had to put him in a larger pen, until people came from all over the country to see what a beautiful large pig he was.
They told pig stories because they both knew a good deal about pigs, and Mr. Dog, being in his own house, let the Crow tell first.
And they tried to get at Tom--but the guinea pig stood in the way.
Tom, and he had brought the Zoological guinea pig and a pair of Belgian hares with him.
A daylight hunt is quite good enough for me, you silly pig keeper.
And the answer would be always the same: "Oh, do let's go to the Zoological Gardens and ride on the big guinea pig and feed the rabbits and hear the dormouse asleep.
Five minutes ago I was a pig keeper--now I've held you in my arms I'm a Prince, though I should have to keep pigs to the end of my days.
He spoke at length of the joys of the single state in which he lived all the year save for the brief period beginning with November, when he drove some charming young lady pig from the nearest herd to be his companion for a few weeks.
The mother bird was a black speck in the distance, but her mate's loving eye could find her out, and he sailed away to meet her as she came heavily towards the nest, a young pig in her claws.
One night he met the recluse from his mountains looking as he had never seen pig look before.
He thought of the solitary pig from the mountains and wondered if he looked like him in the hour of his distress.
Your pig died four months ago--caught cold last July through being out so late at night and died next day.
I took down my long magazine Lee Enfield and my cartridge (I am not a Volunteer for nothing) and crept to the Patriot Pig H.
I paused and added darkly, "That pig shall not return.
Among the literary and artistic treasures of American collectors the manuscript of LAMB'S essay on Roast Pig is eminent.
The Pig Slide, which was in one of the less noisy quarters of Luna Park, consisted of an enclosure in which stood a wooden building of two storeys, some five yards wide and three high.
The crew now loosed the ship from her moorings and went 547 on as they had been told to do, while Telemachus wended his way in all haste to the pig farm where Eumæus lived.
In the evening Eumæus got back to his hut just as the 452 others had killed a yearling pig and were getting supper ready.
In the shed were a fire, and a man, and a pig; in the fire was an iron, and the pig was tied by a rope to a ring.
When the little Earl looked back, he saw the giant pouring water on the fire, and the pig was loose.
Ditte agreed that hens were useful to keep, and the pig could live on anything.
You're my youngest brother, and I'm loth to harm you; but I'll not be knocked down like a pig by you.
They would welcome him with their different cries and run to meet him; he could let the pig out and make it follow him in the funniest gallop round the field.
A dead calf, a half-rotten pig and another calf just alive.
Both the heiresses were dressed as if for a reception, with judiciously selected jewelry samples, evidencing the wondrous success of machine conducted pig demolition.
And so he dreamed that night that he was an assistant presiding genius of the greatpig Golgotha, where Phineas Forbes was the monarch of the meat ax.
Just as he was preparing to put this plan into operation, there arrived in England somepig iron which he had ordered from Sweden some months previously.
His last idea was to make a vessel in which the converting process did not take place, but into which he could put the pig iron as soon as it was melted, along with the same kind of materials that were used in the puddling-furnace.
It is a series which begins with the most impure black pig iron, and ends with the softest and purest wrought iron.
It only takes three words to say that," said Pig Iron.
Several times he met Pig Iron Pete, who, knowing only the public cause for Tom's dejection, prescribed a few drinks as the best cure for such sorrow, and showed his faith in his remedy by offering to take the same medicine.
