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...denied even this. Hummon sent one Jimmy Dykes (237 boarlike pounds of smalltime politician) to sit at it instead. Said Jimmy, when Arnall arrived: "Ellis, you remind me of a hawg. Did you ever slop a hawg? The more you give him the more he wants and he never knows when to get out of the trough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Strictly from Dixie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...tall shanghai rooster and one spotted hawg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Troubadour | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...only really unhappy one is Blue Boy, the Hampshire boar, who grunts in his crate at every bump. Blue Boy is going to the Fair, is going to win the Sweepstake prize. This truck ride bothers him, just the same, for as the hired man said, "No hawg is ever pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fair State | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Often mentioned as a member of this Hogg (pronounced Hawg) family is one named Ura, but she (he) never existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...This here's Hawg Eye, air y'u lost?" Such was the soul harrowing information garnered by C. G. Croncis, an assistant in the Paleontology department of the University, when he ventured a question of a group of bill billies after losing his way on a motor trip through the Ozark Mountains last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atlantic Ocean Doesn't Mean a Thing to the Hill Billies of Hawg Eye and Nellie's Apron--Ozark Sage a "Smart Un" | 10/14/1926 | See Source »

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