Chit-Chat of Humor, Wit, and Anecdote

A LITTER OF YELLOW PIGS.

As ingenious gentleman, who had the marvellous gift of shaping a great many things out of an orange peel, was displaying his abilities at a dinner-party before Theodore Hook and Mr. Thomas Hill, and succeeded in counterfeiting a pig to the admiration of the company. Mr. Hill tried the same feat; and after destroying and strewing the table with the peel of a dozen oranges, gave it up with the exclamation, “Hang the pig! I can’t make him.” “Nay, Hill,” exclaimed Hook, glancing at the mess on the table, “you have done more; instead of one pig, you have made a litter.”