who finally decided that
this small porker must travel as 'two dogs.' Two dog tickets were
therefore procured for him; and so we journeyed on to Y station. There a
second council of war was held, and the officials of Y said that the
officials of X (another line) might be prosecuted for charging my piggy
as two dogs, but that he must travel to Z as a horse, and that he must
have a huge horse-box entirely to himself for the next eighty-two miles.
I declined to pay for the horse-box--they refused to let me have my
pig--officials swarmed around me--the station master advised me to pay
for the horse-box and probably the company would return the extra charge.
I scorned the probability, having no faith in the company--the train (it
was a London express) was already detained ten minutes by this wrangle;
and finally I whirled away bereft of my pig. I felt sure that he would
be forwarded by the next train, but as that would not reach Z till a late
hour in the evening, and it was Saturday, I had to tell my pig tale to
the officials; and not only so, but to go to the adjacent hotel and hire
a pig-stye till the Monday, and fee a porter for seeing to the pig until
I could send a cart for him on that day. Of course the pig was sent
after me by the next train; and as the charge for him was less than a
halfpenny a mile, I presume he was not considered to be a horse. Yet
this fact remains--and it is worth the attention of the Zoological
Society, if not of railway officials--that this small porker was never
recognised as a pig, but began his railway journey as two dogs, and was
then changed into a horse."

SIR MORTON PETO'S RAILWAY MISSION.

Mr., afterwards Sir S. Morton Peto, having undertaken the construction of
certain railways in East Anglia, was at this time in the habit of
spending a considerable part of the year in the neighbourhood of Norwich,
and, with his family, joined Mr. Brock's congregation. It will
afterwards appear how many important movements turned upon the friendship
which was thus formed; but it is only now to be noted that, in the course
of frequent conversations, the practicability was discussed of attempting
something which might serve to interest and improve the large number of
labourers employed on the works in progress. They were part of that
peculiar body of men which had been gradually formed during a long course
of years for employment in the construction, first of navigable canals,
and then of