“Pig Latin” a brilliant piece by Grant Snider!
The spurious autobiography of Toby, from the British Library.
Toby’s cousin, the Flying Pig, from Kim Deitch’s fabulous Shadowland!
The farm’s philosophy, our eyes assure us,
Is simpler than in Aristotle’s day:
The youngest pigling follows Epicurus,
And Bacon’s Essays take the primrose way.
from The Square Book of Animals, by William Nicholson, by way of Project Gutenberg.
Dan Rice and his Learned Pig
A rare thing indeed: apparently a photograph of a learned pig and his proprietor!
The pig-faced lady …
A learned pig in New York, shown alongside the Celebrated Turk and a Writing Automaton.
An 1802 advertisement for a Learned Pig, with a woodcut showing him holding a playing card.
