The Lost Pig
In one of the Australian towns there lives a merchant who has hardly ever been known to give away a shilling in his life.
One morning a poor Irishman stepped in to the counting-house, and, looking the picture of misery, tyold him that he has lost his pig-the only pig he had. The mnerchant refused to help him, and upon this the Irishman threw himself on achair and began to cry bitterly. The merchant thought that his grief wa scaused by the death of his pig, and at last gave him a sovereign.
Next day the merchant met the Iriushman in the street,. And said to him:” Now, Paddy, if you buy a pig with that sovereign, you must take better care of him than you did of the other, What did he die of?” The Irishmnan replied:
“Well, your honour, he did not die of anything in particuloar. He was so fat that I killed him.”
丢失的猪
在澳大利亚的一个小镇上住着一位商人，他十分小气，绝不会轻易地放掉一先令。
一天早上，有个贫穷的爱尔兰人来到了这个商人的公司，神情悲痛地告诉这个商人，他丢失了他唯一的一头猪，商人听了后却不肯帮助他。谁知这名爱尔兰人坐在椅子上大哭起来。商人以为他为了死去的那头猪而悲伤不已，于是最终还是了他一英镑。
第二天，商人在大街上遇见了那个爱尔兰人，向他说：“喂，爱尔兰人，假如你打算用那一英镑再去买一头猪的话，你可要比从前的那头猪更加用心地照顾它了。你的猪是怎么死的？‘爱尔兰人回答说：”这个，先生，其实也没什么特别的。因为它长得太肥，所以我把它给宰了。”
