Do you remember the pub in Cornwall which had a pig in the garden? It was
a pot bellied pig I think.
The pig was so fat its tummy dragged on the floor when it walked along.
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We went to the pub for lunch a few times and played in the garden after we
had eaten. There was a rope tied to a branch of a tree and it had a car
tyre tied to the bottom so you could swing on it.
There was a stream running down one side of the garden and I'm amazed
nobody ever fell in. The pig lived in its own area of the garden right at
the end.
There was an old stone wall and a wobbly old gate and he lived on the
other side.
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On one of those days the man who owned the pub came out with a bucket of
food for the pig. It was all the leftovers from the lunches they had
cooked that day.
Inside the bucket there was potato peel, half-eaten chips, carrots,
custard, some old bread and there was even some ice cream on top. Why
somebody would feed good ice cream to a pig I don't know.
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All the half-eaten, rotten food was mixed up in the bucket. It looked
horrible. All sloppy and runny. That's why they call it pig swill I
suppose.
The man asked Alex if she would like to feed the pig. Alex was very brave
and she said 'yes'.
She carried the bucket of pig swill down the garden, but it was so heavy
that the man had to hold the bucket as well.
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We all ran along behind, looking at the sloppy mess and saying 'urgh'. We
told Callum to eat some but he didn't want to. He was a clever boy even
though he was only about two years old.
Ben said it looked like sick and we all said 'urgh' again.
Alex and the man opened the gate at the bottom of the garden and went
through. The pig looked at them and then carried on sniffing the ground
near his pig sty. Alex looked a bit scared, but she carried on bravely.
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We were a bit scared as well because the man left the gate open, but we
all looked over the old wall to see what would happen.
The man helped Alex tip the pig food into a big bowl that was just in
front of the pig sty. It looked disgusting as it slopped into the bowl. We
all said 'urgh' again.
And do you know what the pig did? He stuck his nose right into the middle
of the sloppy mess and started gobbling it up. He loved the food. We
couldn't believe it.
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In no time at all the food was all gone. Alex and the man came back
through the gate and closed it behind them. The pig looked very happy and
it looked like his tummy dragged on the floor even more.
The man said that Jamie could feed the pig next time, but that was the
last day of our holiday. Perhaps we will go back one day.
The End
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