Show A good one blogin hog in hog out A good one is is told of a worthy deacon in m the city of S m in northern ohio the deacon was the owner and overseer ofa of a large pork packing r establishment his duty it was to stand at the head bead of the scalding trough watch in in hamd to time the length of the scald and cry hog 1 in in when the just slaughtered hog b 9 was to be thrown in in the troughs trough sand and hog out when the told toad three minutes one week when the press of business ausness compelled compell ed the packers to labor unusually hard saturday night found the deacon completely exhausted exham ted indeed he w was as almost sick the next morning in when church tune time came but he was a 1 leading e member and it was his duty duly to attend the usual service if he could ile he went the occasion was one of unusual solemnity as a revival was in in progress the minister preached a sermon well calculated for effect his peroration tion was w as a climax of great beauty A assuming S the attitude of one intently listening he recited to the breathless auditory hark they whisper angels say hog in w came from the deacons deacon dea conk lii pew in in a stentorian voice voice the astonish astonished e d audience turned their attention from the preacher ile he went on ho however ever unmoved sister spirit come away ilog hog aull nd 1 I shouted d the deacon tally alyf four aurl this tars was too much for the preacher and audience the latter smiled some snickered audibly while a few boys broke for the door to 1 split it their sides laughing outside within ain full bearing the preacher was w as disconcerted entire entirely I 1 y sat down arose again pronounced a brief benediction and dismissed the anything g else than solemn minded hearers the deacon soon came to a i realizing sense of his unconscious interlude for his bis bretheren nde him severely while wh lo 11 tho the boys caum ik the infection of the joke and every possible occasion afforded an opportunity for them to say hog in hog out |