Show bec 1 by a DR pig on an arkansas farm lives a six months old pig who deserves a share of the laurela usually lly accorded to faithful and intelli intelligent dogs who save life the owner of 0 the farm hasa has a young daughter who has always been delicate he ile gave her the pig when it was hardly larger than his own band hand thinking it might amuse her sho she raised the little animal became much attached to it and the two played together every day that she was able to be out of doors doom Z i the father tells the story the ather day about 5 in the evening I 1 heard the horn sound from the house I 1 knew something was wrong and I 1 dropped my work and ran my wife imald oh nathan I 1 cant find nellie the last I 1 remember seeing her she w was as playing under the big tree by the gate b jt it was a whole minute before I 1 could gather up my senses then I 1 went and let out the pig he ile ran around the yard and stopped to eat some crumbs which nellie had left under the big tree all at once away he went with his noso nose to the ground running so fast that I 1 could not keep up with him he ile plunged linto the wood woods and I 1 plunged la in after him hira at last he turned suddenly to the left and went racing down the slope my heart went down into my boots at the bottom of the hill bill lay a marsh covered with a green growth and I 1 almost knew that poor little nellie had walked into it and was drowned 1 I bur hurried ricKI down the hill but at first I 1 see anything of the pig aro around una a bend in the marsh what do you think I 1 aw saw on the bank with his feet firmly braced was the pig holding nellie out ot the water as best he be could by her clothing 1 I thought at arst abat abe was dead and she did come very near slipping away from us but wo we finally brought her hr around st joseph news |