"The Singing Pig."

Fortifying himself with repeated swigs of "medicine," Uncle Silas relates a tall tale to his nephew and the boy's grandparents involving a sow that died in her last litter "singing to the end."

The narrator closes by reflecting that "perhaps there are no singing pigs; and perhaps it would be silly, in any case, to cry for them if there were. But then there are a great many people, as my Uncle Silas pointed out, who can't sing either, and I can think of quite a few who do not move me half so near to tears as my Uncle Silas's dying sow and her gentle song."

Published in:

• The Evening Standard (August 14, 1956)
• Sugar for the Horse (1957)
• The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)