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Phil Purcel, the Pig-Driver

William Carleton

"[...] "The pig is it, the crathur? Why, your haner," said Purcel, after a little hesitation, "it sometimes goes up of a mornin' to waken the childhre, particularly when the buckwhist happens to be late. It doesn't like to be waitin'; and sure none of us likes to be kept from the male's mate, your haner, when we want it, no more than it, the crathur!" "But I wonder your wife permits so filthy an animal to have access to her rooms in this manner." "Filthy!" replied Mrs. Purcel, who felt herself called upon to defend the character of the pig, as well as her own, "why, one would think, sir, [...]."

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158 pages

English edition · First published 2015 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · ISBN 9781505249071

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