Pursuits of Agriculture a Satirical Poem in Three Cantos With Notes
Pursuits of Agriculture a Satirical Poem in Three Cantos With Notes
William W William Williams Keen
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* Currycomb.^ It is literally true ! A boar was actually groomed and trained for a shew at Swqjfham. He won the prize. It would have been a thousand pities, indeed, if he had Canto II. ] AGRICULTURE. 75 Administers harsh discipline, Harsh, and quite new to Norfolk swine. not. That the ingenious agriculturist, his master, took equal pains with all his swine, anct kept a sort of sty-stud, I can scarcely con- ceive. But I remember that soon after, u letter appeared in one of the Norwich news- pape...rs, signed Giles Griskin, recommending the practice of currying from its effects ; which were said to be. , great increase of weight in a very short time, remarkable rapidity of growth and fattening, and prodigious superi- ority in the quality of the pork. The substance of this letter was copied into several of the London papers, as a recent and great im- provement. The editors of those papers, na doubt, supposed Mr. Griskin to be in earnest. So did some others. Nay, some people would insist, that the sanguine prizeman himself, hud chosen to take this covert and modest mode, of announcing this valuable discovery.
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