Spotted Pigs And Green Tomatoes (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
When David went to feed the pigs early in the morning, the usual stampede was light one animal. The little black pig was lying on her side in the shed, partially covered by straw. There were no marks on her body. The vet said that she had died of suffocation, probably after being slept on by the bigger pigs. It seems sad and pointless. Although I'm not at all sure that I would have done anything different myself, I am somehow aggrieved that David hasn't eaten her: she might have tasted delicious and my sense of waste would have been partially mitigated. But he says that while he did think of it, the fact that she hadn't been correctly slaughtered stopped him and he buried her three feet down, under a laurel tree. But I think he's too much of a softie to butcher her himself and I wonder how the two of us are going to cope when we set off to Snells the abattoir in the middle of March with the first two boys. The Empress's demise hastens the planned relocation of the pigs.
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