Excerpt from The Hog: Composed by a Father, for His Son The Hoer is the king of all unclean animals; his empire is the most universal, and his qualities the most unequivocal of any other. He is the sovereign of the cook-shop; without him we should have no lard, no forced meatballs, nor fixed ammunition for the frying pay; no roast pigs - in short, no kitchen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.