Anecdotes of the Learned Pig

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When we went into Wales together, and ſpent ſome time at Sir Robert Cotton’s at Llewenney, one day at dinner I meant to pleaſe Mr. Johnſon particularly with a diſh of very young peas. – “Are not they charming?” ſaid I to him, while he was eating them. – “Perhaps (ſaid he) they would be ſo – to a Pig.” – Piozzi, p. 63.

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This paſſage ſeems inexplicable. We have had reſort to Bozz, but in vain: the ſtaff, indeed, he readily acknowledged; but as to the other aſſociate, or who, or what was meant, neither he nor we were able to diſcover.