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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 - Various Various

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      Title: Punch, Or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 13, 1892

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 102.

      February 13, 1892.

      PLEASING THE PIGS! (From a Private and Confidential Report.)

      Mr. CHAPLIN received a deputation on the subject of the Swine-fever last week. True to his dramatic instincts as regards the fitness of things, the Minister for Agriculture was, on this occasion, wearing a Sow-wester. He regretted that he was unable to don a pig-tail, which, as the representative of the Fine Old English Gentleman of years gone by, he should much like to do, but it was a fashion with the pig-wigs of the last century which he hoped to see revived as a tail of old times. It was better, far better to be pig-tailed as were their great grandfathers, than to be pigheaded as were so many people with pig-culiar notions, specially in Scotland.

      I am doing and have been doing, said the Ministering CHAPLIN, "my very best to please the pigs, but there are some pigs that won't be pleased when they find that everything is not going to be done for them gratis. You may take this for grunted,—I should say granted. Now let me give you an illustration. There were five pigs belonging to a well-known littery family. The first pig went to market but no one would purchase him, the second pig stayed at home (not feeling well), the third pig had pleuro-pneumonia, and the fourth pig was in full swing—if you can imagine a pig in a swing—of swine-fever; and the fifth and quite the smallest pig of the lot, a mere sucking-pig, went 'wheeze, wheeze, wheeze!' and 'wheezes' were always a very bad sign. À propos of 'signs' I have little doubt but that the well-known sign of the 'Pig and Whistle' descends to us from ancient times of Influenza. He trusted that the whole pig-family would soon be pigging up again."

      The Right Hon. Gentleman finished by apologising for not being able to quote anything apposite from the works of either the philosophic BACON, the Ettrick Shepherd HOGG, or the poetic SUCKLING, his motto for the present being "porker verba," and he had to issue

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