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...itself. The "Mayflower", of all impeccable ships, is now accused of carrying cows, and actually,--pigs. The horror of the imputation would be unspeakable,--but fortunately we know better. With the authentic load of hymn-books, blunderbusses, bed-warmers and spinning-wheels, could there have been also room for swine? The question is rhetorical; there could not. But the trend of things is obvious. How soon will someone discover that Douglas wrote the Gettysburg Address...
Since those days of the forties many changes have occurred. Swine no longer root up the mud in the Washington streets, and the mud has become shallow enough to make possible the use of trousers instead of rubber boots and knee breeches. The "City of Magnificent Intentions" has at last changed into the "City of Magnificent Distances", and at present is sedate and orderly enough...
Behold the fowl. See how proudly he struts among his brother and wife fowl. How scornfully and derisively he crows at the barnyard turkeys. How arrogantly he pecks at his beans and his cabbage. How sneeringly he looks upon the swine, how snubbingly upon the kine. But well should he be proud; it the recent Hotel Exposition he was elected the nation's most popular dish. Every day more diners choose him for their pieces de resistance than any other man, bird, or beast in the country. He is the chief mouth-waterer and gastrician of the land...
...necessity and consumption would naturally be those in which the alien would triumph over the native nomenclature. In the third class we should of course expect to find the greatest number of examples,- the producers being Saxon and the consumers Norman. Thus for instance we have ox, sheep, calf, swine, on the one hand, to designate the thing produced, all Saxon-and, on the other, beef, mutton, veal, pork, all Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same way while the names of the various grains continue Saxon as well as the product of the inferier kinds when...
...together; if sin is kept, pain is kept, if the sin is gone, pain also must have gone. The gospel is not like an easy badge to be put on or off at will. Christ will not come unless he can cast out the devils and send away the swine...