Information on working terriers, dogs, natural history, hunting, and the environment, with occasional political commentary as I see fit. This web log is associated with the Terrierman.com web site.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Pigs Not in a Poke
A drift of baby pigs at the local County Fair today. Baby pigs are hard to contain, and in medieval times were sold in a sack — a “pig in a poke”. Fraudsters were said to sometimes slip in a cat, hence the term, “let the cat out of the bag.”
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