Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 780
uth. And pres-ently they spied himcoming with theblack-and-white pigtrotting at his heelsas contented as youplease; for the young man had had the thought to beg a handfulof corn from a farmers wagon that he passed,and was dropping a grain now and then to tollthe swine on. What is this? he asked… … WHAT IS THIS. HE ASKED, WHEN HE SAW ALL THE PEOPLE. Aye, said the youth, when he had heard all,to be a king pleases me well; but first I must takethe pig home. And it is said that he made as good a king asGaffer Wiseman had thought he would when hemet him on the highway.
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