032 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(032.jpg) Verso Soon occasion her return - Newc[ illegible torn page] [ride] on horseback, and amongst them a [illigible - torn page]acter exists, but even this limited approxim[illegible torn page] often is continually interrupted by the little [liasities illegible ton page] and mutual encroachments of near neighbours, and then petty quarrels are espoused by a whole district - A pig visiting a cornfield or an ox leaping the fence of a garden have occasioned as much animosity as the destruction of a province; Pigs in particular have excited more quarrels than all the other live and dead stock in the Colony put together - pigs should be excommunicated and put out of the pale of the law as they are in the West Indies where they are allowed to be shot whenever found trespassing - Our worthy settlers whenever they find a cause of dispute seem to acquire some of the character of the matter in question, if a quarrel arises about a pig, they must pertinaciously bore each other for years and [every] other mutual annoyances in the same insidious and indirect way in which [Mr Pork] approaches a cornfield and tho drivin from their position a hundred times still return to the same point of attack to renew their vexatious proceedings. If the quarrel arises about an ox or a horse it causes much tossing and kicking and occasionally a bellowing fit, and the evil is soon remedied by a reconciliation - But a pig that is the question and difference on such a subject will last long enough for twenty generations of the offender to be consumed, a pig is like a phoenix after being consumed it arises from its ashes never to be forgotten - A highly respectable young man a short time hence was tried for wilfully and maliciously shooting at a neighbours, and his life was put in jeopardy on a pig quarrel. If the dispute had arisin on any other grounds a reconciliation might have been Datenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2666334394/

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SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustralia

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