[Paths of Glory by Irvin S. Cobb]@TWC D-Link bookPaths of Glory CHAPTER 10 9/14
The skull-and-bones poison label on his cap made a wondrous contrast with the smiling eyes and the long, humorous, wrinkled-up nose below it. "A miserable country," he said, with a sweep of his arm which comprehended all Northwestern Europe, from the German border to the sea -- "so little there is to eat! My belly--she is mostly empty always.
But on the yesterday I have the much great fortune.
I buy me a swine--what you call him ?--a pork? Ah, yes; a pig.
I buy me a pig.
He is a living pig; very noisy, as you say--very loud.
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