HOG-KILLING VARMINT

Here we have one of those isolates, creatures of which only a single specimen is reported and we cannot say whence they came nor where they disappear to subsequently.  I refer to the Hog-Killing Varmint of Indiana.  This flourished in 1948.  As you can imagine, its victims were hogs.  A witness was a police officer named L. Daniels.  He described it as having long legs, a big head, pointed ears and small eyes.  He felt it belonged in a horror film.  As stated above, we have no clue where it came from or where it went.  It seems to have been a casual visitor to this dimension.

Hogs and Pigs

With reference to the hogs that seemed to be the unhappy victims of the creature mentioned above, a certain confusion seems to obtain about the differences between hogs and pigs.

In the United States, the term hog means a very big pig, while in other countries the terms are used interchangeably.  The word swine can mean either.  The male is a boar, the female a sow, a young adult is a pigling and the young a piglet.  A young sow can be called a gelt, gilt or yelt.

Don't let that varmint get me.