Getting a sow and her twelve piglets home across the creek

My husband and us all went home and we had her fed and so for the night she was okay. So next day we carried the food again all three of us after my husband went to work. And we was figured how could we move it.

This was a third day already and no one cared to carry the food up there. And she was the saying she'd get up and go and eat, keep an eye on all the little ones, twirling inside that hollow and nothing was done so we carried twice more and they were growing leaps and bounds they were quite getting quite big bigger well quite a bit bigger than they were the first day so this is a third day already so we decide we're going to do something the next day because the boys refused to help me carry the food for so we figured we're still going to

try and will it play the rest of it how come well we tried with the first one and she got all riled up and so we dropped him on the ground and he was his foot down in the hollow with the rest of him there was now that we could do him so the oldest boy said he says let's give her little by little into the trough and amble her towards the creek and once we get to the creek she will crawl and while she be crossing it will be feeding her one of the guys will go and put the little ones in the blanket

and when there'll be three four five of them in the blanket in the tub they won't be making so much noise and quickly we'll put the rest of them in while she's engaged drinking way by the creek oh it was quite a ways a good good city block or so from the place where she had them to the creek well we try to it didn't work, but she was maybe about 10 steps away from the little ones when she found out that she hasn't got the little ones around.

So she was making little noises, you know, and they started going following her right through the grass and the rubble and everything, the whole whole bunch. So we let her stay there and one of us would follow them slowly, but not too close so she don't jump us.

And first thing, you know, they were all by the mother. So my oldest took the troughs and put it again a little further away from her and we gave her a little more food. And she followed, the little woods followed.

So we were just a little ways from the creek by then. So the boy says, now what are we going to do? And the little boy, the five, seven -year -old, he was carrying the tub and the blanket with him back of the little one.

And so Johnny says, let's go on the other side of the creek and offer her some more food. So we did, and she crossed the creek and she was eaten and then making these odd noises. And lo and behold, the whole 12 starts swimming right across that ice cold water to the mother.

So they swam across four days old. And it was so surprising we could hardly believe our eyes. And so quickly the boy took the troughed a little further away again, and it was a matter of five, six steps to the main highway where the road was.

So we got her onto the road, and all the little ones, wet as they were, they were on the road with the mother. And so then we started to go and keep on calling her, and the boy carried the trough, and when you could see that she didn't feel like following him, he put the trough down on the ground, and I put a little more food in there.

And she come to it and slurred it down. And then all the little ones followed. Over than half an hour or so, we had them home. And, of course, the place was prepared for them. John had it all fixed.

So we let her in there, and all the little ones followed. And we shut the few boards on them, and there we had them. She was fed, so she went and made a nice bed in the straw, and everything was just fine.