The Queer Pet That Was Adopted by a Regiment.
    Perhaps the strangest pet that ever attracted a regiment’s fancy was a pig. She attached herself to a Kentucky regiment on the way to invade Canada during the war of 1812.
    As the men marched out from Harrodsburg one morning they came across two pigs fighting. They halted to see it out. When the march was resumed the victorious pig followed the regiment. When they encamped at night the pig halted and found a shelter. The next morning the pig started with the regiment, and when it stopped the pig halted. Day by day it trotted along until the Ohio river was reached. A ferryboat transported the troops to Cincinnati, but the pig swam the stream and waited on the other side until the regiment took up its line of march.
    During the long tramp to the lake piggy received her full share of rations. Occasionally the men were put on short commons, but no one thought of sticking the regiment’s pet.
    When they came to the lake’s shore piggy was offered a passage across to Canada. She refused to stir from American soil.
    When the campaign closed the troops recrossed to American soil, where they had left their horses. As the line was being formed a familiar grunt was heard. There was piggy ready to resume the march. On the homeward way the pig suffered greatly from the cold weather. It crossed, however, the Ohio river and then gave in.
    Governor Shelby of Kentucky had piggy conveyed to his farm, and there she passed her days in indolence and good living, honored as the regiment’s pet.-Exchange.
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