On April 15, 1778 two pigs
Living with Parson James Woodforde
Drank most of a barrel of beer
As Woodforde wrote in his diary
"I never saw Piggs so drunk in my life"
(What sort of life, do you suppose,
Makes a parson able to speak assuredly
On the comparative drunkenness of pigs?)
That same day, John Adams wrote
Inquiring after a pair of his son's pants
Possibly left behind at a friend's house.
If found, wrote Adams, give the pants
To the poor after taking from the waistband
The eight or more guineas I hid there.
Woodforde's pigs still staggered
On the morning of April 16th but later
They were tolerably sober.
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