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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 5 (August 2, 1937)

Pig-skin Patriotism

Pig-skin Patriotism.

For patriotism is pride and pride, like ivy and adenoids, cannot prosper without something upon which to fasten. Thus it is that, within the mild oleaginous skin of Farmer Filigree's superlative porker, there reposes the fierce patriotism of a sturdy son of the soil. Unwitting of the torch of one man's faith and pride she bears this unconscious porkine patriot exhibiting her unblemished bodywork at agricultural shows—a champion and—yea!—the champion of one man's personal patriotism.