pig-joint

Updated: May 4, 2025

Not a word of the whole story of the theft was true: but Mistress Boris reasoned as follows: "You must come here first, gypsy woman, with that scolloped-eared pig: if they find it in your possession, they will put you in jail, and ask you what you did with the rest. Whether your innocence is proved or not, the pig-joint will in the meanwhile become uneatable, and won't come into your stomachs.

Mór Jókai - Debts of Honor