GR translation: four haze-gray piglets

[David Morris]

Yes. Smaller but similar.

On Saturday, August 15, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V597.3-10   Presently, out of breath, they arrive at the pier where the
> Badass and its division, four haze-gray piglets, are tied up, to find the
> runcible spoon fight just under way at the center of a weaving, cheering
> crowd of civilian and military drunks. Stringy Avery Purfle, sideburns
> slick as seal’s fur in the pallid light, Adam’s apple working in and out at
> a nervous four or five cycles a minute, shuffles around his opponent, the
> serene and oxlike St. John Bladdery, both with runcible spoons in the
> on-guard position, filed edges bright.
>
> Why are they called "piglets"?  Is it just because they are much smaller
> than the Badass?
>
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