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Title: Extracts from the note-book of Mr. Percival Pug : illustrated by sketches from his portfolio
Year: 1837 (1830s)
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Subjects: Christian life Boys -- Conduct of life Swine
Publisher: Boston : Printed by Torrey & Blair, No. 31 Cornhill
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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to draw13* 150 PETER PEPPER. ♦ the other way; and Pat let him draw ratherthe hardest. He was going along so, when hemet one of his friends. Hilloa, Pat, said he,* what are you about here—you travelling oneway, and your pig going tother ? * IVow, Murphy, my dear, whispered Pa-trick, * cant you be asy? Im gitting alongnicely now ; but if ever he gits a notion ofwhere Im a going, I shant do it at all. But, Pat, my man, said Murphy,youare acting like a natural, ant ye ? Why, here,yer own dogs laughing at you. Well, then ; and the pup may laugh, andyou may laugh too, so you dont let it out whereIm going. Those can bear a laugh who win ;you know that, dont you, my dear ? But I dont know where youre goingyit; I see well enough your pigs going toLimerick. But you seem to be travellino-todier way. Well, then, Murphy, if it will make yea?y, Ill tell you; Im going to Limerick jist ina quiet way, ye see. Its the same way that Im travelling,Pat, my dear, and Id be right glad of your ■■ /m
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IS .i,,,*£f^ -jf^ 9 wy^rn ~%i PETER PEPPER. 153 company. Come, then, if yere going to Lim-erick, turn round, and walk on like a man.How long is it yeve taken to travelling like acrab ? Now, cant you spake saftly about thatsame town ? Dont ye know if he was to- gitan inkling of my going there, I shouldnt gkthere at all ? Ant you a sinsible fellow,.$i^w,to ask me to turn round ? xy^en, cif I wds tohave my face towards Limevici<:J it^r,jist theother way the pig would be tFayellirlg, and itsthrouble enough Id have to bring him there.So, if youve any thing to say of the place at all,jist spake in a whispher. So Pat went ontalking with his friend, till the pig dragged himquietly into the market. Well, Peter, said the farmer, that illus-trates the character of the animal very well,though I suppose it was for his own amusementthat Pat chose to go back\^^ards. He needonly to have pulled back upon the rope, for theanimal is not very sagacious. And an obsti-nate man is not much more so than

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