Note 133 — A RIDE FROM BUDE TO BOSS[116] BY TWO OXFORD MEN[117]
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“One breed may rise, another fall; The Berkshire hog survives them all.”
It was, perhaps, in commemoration of this episode that Hawker when afterwards curate of North Tamerton, kept a tame Berkshire pig. Another parson-poet, Robert Herrick, is also said to have had a pet porker.