Q. You talk very sensibly for a hog; whence had you your information?
A. From a learned Pig.
The following is given by way of answer to the question by what ceremony the hog is disenchanted, and resumes his natural shape.
A. The hog that is going to be disenchanted, grovels before the Chief Driver, who holds an iron skewer over him, and gives him a smart blow on the shoulder, to remind him at once of his former subjection and future submission. Immediately he starts up, like the devil from Ithuriel’s spear, in his proper shape, and ever after goes about with a nick-name. He then beats his hogs without mercy, and when they implore his compassion, and beg him to recollect that he was once their Fellow Swine, he denies that ever he was a hog.
This curious dialogue thus concludes:—
Q. What is the general wish of the hogs at present?
A. To save their bacon.
Chorus of hogs.
Amen.