Pigs and Blankets

[Ted Samsel]

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> The recent exchanges about pizza and such reminded me of a favorite boyhood
> book series starring Freddy the Pig.  Said pig can talk to people, puts on
> baseball games and the like and has a coterie of interesting farm critter pals.
> It's all rather enjoyable, but perhaps a tad too bucolic for postmodern tastes.
> Sometimes, though, it reaches the bizarre.  In FREDDY THE DETECTIVE, Freddy
> lures a hungry villain out of hiding by cooking bacon!  There is no apparent
> awareness of the irony of this cannibalistic act.
> 
Ah yes! Freddy the Pig. Took place in Herkimer County on Schermerhorn's
Farm as I recall.

We kept a pig in our backyard during the '70s, telling the meter reader
it was a "special" breed of dog. Finally, a new, improved meter reader
got that route and we had to eat old Guich.

ted samsel  tejas at infi.net