ILLETERATE PIGS BEWARE -

Joe O’Dea built the first structure of any significance in the town of Perenjori.

With his wife he ran a makeshift restaurant and catered to the culinary needs of the railway workers.

Joe kept a number of animals but they were rarely restrained and often wandered into the crop fields of farmers.

One put up a notice saying, ‘ Poison laid here’, but Joe just said that his pigs couldn’t read.

The farmer's response was to shoot one of the pigs....

From the book 'Sound of the Cockies' by Bill and Jenny Bunbury.

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