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"To John Harborough's cottage at the other end of the hill," answered Bent. "He's the man they spoke of in there. He's a queer character a professional pig-killer, who has other trades as well. He does a bit of rat-catching, and a bit of mole-catching and a good deal of poaching. In fact, he's an odd person altogether, not only in character but in appearance.
Smith. 'We be rather in a muddle, to tell the truth, for my son is just dropped in from Indy a day sooner than we expected, and the pig-killer is coming presently to cut up. Mrs. Barbara Worm, not wishing to take any mean advantage of persons in a muddle by observing them, removed her bonnet and mantle with eyes fixed upon the flowers in the plot outside the door.
I remember old Mag Cooligan fought with a whole regiment of King's troops in Bantry, and even the drums stopped beating, the soldiers were that much interested. But, sure, everybody would be knowing that Mag was no grand lady, although Pat Cooligan, her brother, was pig-killer to half the country-side. I am thinking we were knowing little about grand ladies.
Jude looked out of the window long before dawn, and perceived that the ground was covered with snow snow rather deep for the season, it seemed, a few flakes still falling. "I'm afraid the pig-killer won't be able to come," he said to Arabella. "Oh, he'll come. You must get up and make the water hot, if you want Challow to scald him. Though I like singeing best." "I'll get up," said Jude.
"Find who that cord belongs to, and you may get at something," suddenly observed the doctor, glancing at the policemen. "You say it's a butcher's cord?" The man who had just whispered to Cotherstone nodded. "It's a pig-killer's cord, sir," he answered. "It's what a pig-killer fastens the pig down with on the cratch."
Bax this, not concealing about how shabby the little one was, and she gloriously said "The pair by all means! We don't kill a pig every day!" "No, indeed," said Dora, but if "killing a pig" means having a lark, Mrs. Bax is as good a pig-killer as any I ever knew. It was a perfect day, as I said before. We were all clean and had our second-best things on.
Hence, it seems to me, the first business of the day should be to put the mind through its paces. You look after your body, inside and out; you run grave danger in hacking hairs off your skin; you employ a whole army of individuals, from the milkman to the pig-killer, to enable you to bribe your stomach into decent behaviour.
They've eat the goodness out of every morsel of my manure, so that 'tis no better than sand itself!" Sure enough the hungry mortals had. 'Tis my belief that in the secret souls o' 'em, Jacob's ladders be weeds, and not flowers at all, if the truth was known. Robert Lickpan, pig-killer and carrier, arrived at this moment.
'Many's the rum-tempered pig I've knowed. 'I don't doubt it, Master Lickpan, answered Martin, in a tone expressing that his convictions, no less than good manners, demanded the reply. 'Yes, continued the pig-killer, as one accustomed to be heard. 'One that I knowed was deaf and dumb, and we couldn't make out what was the matter wi' the pig.
'Ah, well, said Worm musingly, 'some would have looked for no less than a Sir. There's a sight of difference in people. 'And in pigs likewise, observed John Smith, looking at the halved carcass of his own. Robert Lickpan, the pig-killer, here seemed called upon to enter the lists of conversation. 'Yes, they've got their particular naters good-now, he remarked initially.
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