Word of the voracious Tuscan boars has reached the Pig Sanctuary in Parkinsaw, where they are preparing for a July 4th Festival featuring the Cincinnati Flying Pigs and the Parcel Post pigs,late of Connecticutt. The piggies are terrified! Is there any possibility that these hybrids can reach them in their Sanctuary in Michigan? Would the PArkies who care for them be frozen and helpless to defend them? Surely there was a reason why the message about the boars appeared on this list ---is it an omen ? Say it isn't so! >The indigenous Tuscan boar was 'improved' after the [second world] war >by the introduction of a heavier species from Hungary. >The cross is so prolific that in certain parts of Tuscany, >farmers strap their guns to the flanks of their tractors, like cowboys, >to be ready to defend their crops against the wandering hoards of wild pigs. > >Matthew Spender > > >janet paterson >52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset >PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada >a new voice http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ >[log in to unmask] ---just for fun!........ Camilla <[log in to unmask]> http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm Laughter-- :-) :-) the best medecine !