Jokes

Shortly after the origin of Cove, many people provided their winter bacon by acquiring a pig in spring and feeding it over summer. Two men left Hamlethill one morning and proceeded to Glasgow where they enjoyed themselves, purchasing each a young pig in the market. They returned safely and it occurred to them that they might as well have "just one more!" To this end they deposited their burden carefully in a shed behind one of the shops and went in for beer. A joker had got his eye upon their doings, who substituted, in a bag, two large cats for the pigs. When the bag was finally opened in the hut where pigs were kept, there was an immediate "fizz-whish" scramble and the cats sprang wildly over the mens heads. In great terror the men rushed off to their houses where they found that a boy had handed in a bag, with the pigs safely enclosed, half an hour earlier. They had an uneasy impression that the Arch-enemy was still at work.