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Rh be glad to zee 'e then. Come an' look at un." They accordingly went to the sty where the celebrated Pig was, and for awhile both gazed admiringly.

Bob Appleford then stroked the Pig and remarked, "A be a vine un' jus' as I zed vor, be-ant a? " "Eese, a rayly be," said the claimant from Didcot; "Zurely a 'markable vine Peg, an' med I ax'e what 'e hev a-ved un on to maayke—." "That be my business an' not yourn, good marnin'," replied Bob Appleford interrupting.

"No one else claimed the Pig."

The Mid-Berkshire rebuff to a Busybody is and is likely to be, "You'll never get Bob Applevord's Peg."