Hog finds dynamite supply, eats it, walks behind mule; the mule kicks the hog. The explosion kills the mule, blows down the barn, breaks windows out of house. The hog is ill for several days

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Hog finds dynamite supply, eats it, walks behind mule; the mule kicks the hog. The explosion kills the mule, blows down the barn, breaks windows out of house. The hog is ill for several days.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about mammals. · view the constellation · filed as X1233.2.1

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U.S.*Baughman.

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Filed under Lie: tough hog.

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