An incident showing the growth of the humane sentiment is told
in connection with the recent Paris flood. Upon one occasion
great crowds gathered on the banks of the Seine at a point
where what appeared to be a man, but which turned out to be a
pig, that had been carried out of its sty by the flood, was
making a struggle for life. After humane bystanders had manned
a boat, rescued the animal, and brought it to shore, one woman
declared she could not think of allowing it to be saved from
drowning only to be butchered, and offered to purchase it from
its owner for $38. After securing the animal, the problem was
to get it to its new quarters, and this she solved by buying a
collar, to which she attached a rope to be used as a leader.
In her promenade as a pig-leader she was assisted by a great
crowd, who jested and jeered, and finally the pig was installed
in his new home. Our forefathers who engaged in pig-sticking
by way of sport would doubtless be amazed if told that the
time would ever come when people in a flood-plagued city would
not only rescue a drowning pig, but save it from the butcher’s
knife.--_Vogue._
(1456)
=Humble Helpers=--See INTERDEPENDENCE.
=Humble Helpers Remembered=--See NEGRO “MAMMY” REMEMBERED.