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Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.
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IRELAND.
AN IRISH MOTHER.—There is at this moment, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, an orphan family of infant pigs, the property of Mr. Haslam the builder; on the loss of the old sow he gave up her children for dead. But a humane Irishman, skilled in porcine pursuits, offered to take the place of the lost mother to the little ones, and was accepted as wet nurse. Converting his fingers into teats, he dipped them into milk, and set the seven piglings a-sucking. This practice he pursued until his fingers became sore, and then he devised other means. The result is, that he can now boast of a family of fat grunters, reared by a mother who is certainly "sowi generis," what can Romulus and Remus now say for themselves? They, in the words of withering orators, must "hide their diminished heads." For a wolf to suckle two Romish brats is a fact not to be mentioned on the same day, with the sucking of seven pigs by one Irishman!—Gateshead Observer.
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