The past season appears to have been prosperous agriculturally. A villager trudging home with a half pig on_his shoulder has been a not uncommon sight. 'A New Year with only half a pig is certainly more of a success: than one with none. It is a well-known fact, too, that every native, not a Mahomedan, consumes piggy with a much clearer conscience than any other animal, for which his reason is always ready: "Why did Heaven make him, if not for eating?"
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