One of the less-discussed advantages of e-books

[commodorified]

Is that when reading on a tablet one may easily look slightly puzzling things up as curiosity strikes, rather than being entirely dependent on working them out from whatever context is available.

I do not say that I have lost anything much over the last thirty years by supposing, from time to time and while reading novels set in the UK, that The Pink 'Un was a periodical concerned with the raising and marketing of pigs, which I worked out contained also, perhaps, humourous essays and some cartoons, but I am pleased to report that I am now, at least on this minor point, Enlightened, even as I gently mourn my innocent, imaginary monthly porcine publication, and the cheery cover illustrations I had mentally provided it with.

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[clanwilliam]

Not to mention the fact that getting stroppy sows drunk is the usual way of getting them to actually nurse their piglets. It's not just James Heriot - I've read a few accounts from other sources as well.