The Most Famous Hog in History....Three Legs Is Better Than None

The Most Famous Hog In History.....Three Legs is Better Than None.

On a recent trip to visit a family friend, I was amazed to see a three-legged hog roaming loose on the farm. When I spoke to Tom, he told me that the hog was like family to him. Intrigued, I asked him how the hog lost his hind leg.

“Well, see, I was working on a tractor and didn’t notice that the durn thing was leaking gas. I didn’t even see that the gas was spreading and getting closer and closer to my ash tray with my cigarette burning in it. All of a sudden, this hog runs into the barn and grabs me by the scuff of my shirt and drags me out of the barn just as the tractor exploded! I would have been killed!”

“Wow,” I said. “That’s amazing. So he lost his leg in the explosion?”

“Oh, no,” my friend replied.

“Well, I don’t get it. How did the hog lose his leg?”

“Well, there was the time that me and the family was asleep in the house when an electrical fire started downstairs. We was all asleep upstairs. Next thing you know, the hog had run into the house oinking at the top of his little lungs. He jumped on our bed and got us up and out of the house. We looked up and realized our son was still in the house. Next thing you know, the darndest thing happened. That hog had gone into the house and grabbed my son. He took my kid and jumped out of the window with him. Saved my kid’s life.”

“I don’t believe it!” I said. “That has got to be the most incredible thing I’ve ever heard. So the pig lost his leg in the fire?”

“No,” replied my friend.

“Well, was it in the jump?” I asked.

“Not really,” said Tom.

Frustrated, I finally blurted out, “Then what the heck happened to the hog’s leg?”

“See,” said Tom, “when you have a hog that good, you just can’t eat him all at once.”


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