Black Peter: Pig-out

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: Black Peter: Pig-out
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: He probably paid good money for the thing, after all.

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“More spareribs?”

“Holmes, I’m satiated.”

“Then some loin slices? Trotters?”

“No. More. Please.”

“Watson, I own a 400-pound pig that requires immediate consumption.”

“Holmes! The solution is obvious!”

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“Some chops, Wiggins?”

“Jest put ‘em next to the brawn and bacon, Mr. Holmes!”

“Did you lads all get ham packages to take home?”

Twenty Irregulars chorused affirmative through full, grinning mouths.

Comments

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Love it how Holmes cares for his irregulars.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

He's probably a one-man employment agency for a lot of poverty-ravaged kids in that neighbourhood.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

At least some good came of the whole adventure.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

One pig = a slum neighbourhood of full stomachs. Good bargain.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I love the exchange between Holmes and Watson in the first half. “Watson, I own a 400-pound pig that requires immediate consumption.” ^___^ And I love Watson's solution ^___^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Poor Watson - I've been at that "if I lick a plate I'm gonna burst" level of fullness and it's not fun.

Young boys are always hungry - and those are boys from good homes with regular meals, let alone perpetually-starving street kids. I can imagine a lot of full bellies and sound sleep coming out of that one pig.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Hungry boys can easily consume a whole pig!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Growing boys are always ravenous - and those are the boys from comfy homes with plenty of food in the fridge. I can't imagine how famished those Victorian street-kids must have been all the time. They'd fall on a 400-lb pig like a school of pirhanas, and take the bones home for bean soup.

[debriswoman]

Entirely sensible disposal route:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Two adult men may be able to make a tiny inroad in a bit of pork, but a squad of growing boys are like a school of pirhanas - they'd skeletonize that pig in an hour.