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You see another pig in a commonplace sty, and you never dream of pathos; but old Joan wipes a tear from her eye with her apron when she remembers how that pig came into her possession.— Mushrooms on the Moor
Master Pig will be obliged to go into the sty, and very likely get the whip for his pains; like a wayward child that gets chid for disobedience.— The Royal Picture Alphabet
--_Daily Mail Does the writer delicately hesitate to call a sty a sty, or has the internment of the food-hog really begun Lord Robert Cecil concluded: 'There is a well-known French proverb, Que; messieurs, les assassins commencement--let the murderers begin.'"— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917
A residence in the sty is apt to leave a stain which I have not found on him, though I have looked for it The eyes of the two women met, and, though nothing more was said, each realized that the other was perplexed by the same question, while the girl was astonished to find her vague suspicions shared.— Winston of the Prairie
She asked the pigs how they managed in winter; but they only grunted, and she could not remember what became of them, for the sty was always empty in cold weather One dreadful night she found out.— The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School

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