Published in The Waukegan Gazette on August 24, 1878.
    One of the most remarkable cases of instinct that was ever heard of came under our personal observation a few days ago. Mr. Deveaux, the county jailer, was presented with a small pig by a friend living about four miles from town, and it was tied by him to the courthouse yard. The pig was not four weeks old, and was brought the whole distance in a sack. On friday morning last, Mr. Deveaux untied it and did not notice it particularly. In the evening he discovered that it had strayed off. On Saturday morning his friend informed him that the pig had retured to his farm and was with its mother, it having succeeded in making its way from to the place of its nativity. The journey was the more remarable as the way to be traversed was first across Briton’s Bay, which is half a mile wide, and thence through the inclosures of three different farms. The pig was seen by some colored men while crossing the bay, who tried to intercept it, but it dodged them and escaped to the cornfield in the direction of its home.-St. Mary’s. [Md.] Bancoe.
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