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Show Overworking the Hog. A commercial traveler, driving from town to town through the pine woods of Florida, saw a drove of emaciated razorback hogs rushing .wildly from tree to tree. He halted at the pal- ings of a "cracker's" home, and asked a woman in a sunbonnet what was the matter with the swine. "Well, you see," the woman explained, ex-plained, "my old man is deaf and dumb, and when he wanted to call the hogs to their swill he learned them to come when he tapped on one of the trees. It worked all right when: they first got learned, but now them woodpeckers is making the poor-things poor-things run their legs off." |