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 Pigs. the learned counsel discussed the matter and the venerable judge laid down the law, the prisoner at the bar frequently grunted and screamed, and tried to poke his nose through the slats of the prisoner's box. An

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pigs, fed at the public expense. These swine in Flanders were marked by a T cross, and were allowed to roam about the towns at liberty; in some places they became such a nuisance that the municipal authorities

TRIAL OF A PIG AT LAUSANNE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

ox or a cow under similar circumstances usually won a certain amount of sympathy by quiet and submissive behavior and by the air of melancholy and regret assumed. Saint Anthony was very fond of animals; in 341 he established a monastic order which had the right of keeping consecrated

compounded with the monks by paying the monasteries of St. Anthony considerable sums on condition that these pigs should be kept in. There was a house of St. Anthony in Threadneedle Street, London, and the swine belonging to it had the right on the saint's day to enter any house; they seem