The Tythe Pig: A parson being prevented carrying off a piglet that has been selected for tithe payment by a farmer’s wife who insists that if the reverend is taking part of her flock then he must take one of her children, who she can presumably no longer afford to feed, as well. “The Tythe Pig In Country Village Lives a Vicar, Fond – as all are – of Tythes and Liquor, To mirth his ears are seldom Shut, He’ll Crack a Joke, and laugh at Smut; But when his Tythes he gathers in, On Fish, On Flesh, On Bird, On Beast, Alike lays hold the Churlish Priest Hob’s Wife and Sow – as Gossips tell Both at a time in Pieces fell; The Parson comes, the Pig he claims And the good Wife with Taunts inflames; Kept back the Pig and held the Child; The Priest look’d gruff, the Wife look’d big, Z…ds, Sir! quoth she, no Child, no Pig”
Height: 6 ⅝”
Condition: Chip to the pink piglet’s head, handle to the basket of eggs missing and chips to the bocage