in the middle of the road, they came upon a shivering pig. It had apparently tumbled out of the bed of a pickup into the snow. Peg estimated that it weighed at least two hundred pounds. David nudged it with the car to see if it would move out of the way. Finally, he got out and grabbed the pig by the ears and tugged it aside. In that fateful moment, did the pig cough in his face? Peg and I retraced their steps, stopping at farmhouses along the way. We finally found the owner of the pig, who was not happy to hear my theory that his pig may have been the source of a disease that could
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