Crossword-Solution: FARROWED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

His talk was now of tithes and dues; He smoked his pipe and read the news; Knew how to preach old sermons next, Vamped in the preface and the text; At christenings well could act his part, And had the service all by heart; Wished women might have children fast, And thought whose sow had farrowed last Against Dissenters would repine, And stood up firm for Right divine.

Though this was still the summer season in that part of the world, and the weather was become somewhat warmer than it had been before, yet such were the effects of the cold, that a sow having farrowed nine pigs in the morning, all of them, notwithstanding the utmost care to prevent it, were killed before four o'clock in the afternoon.

The account that Alba was built by a son of Æne'as, who had been guided to the spot by a white sow, which had farrowed thirty young, is clearly a story framed from the similarity of the name to Albus (_white_,) and the circumstance of the city having been the capital of the thirty Latin tribes.

Three others farrowed eleven each, and so down to one ungrateful mother who contributed but five to the industry at Four Oaks.

The old sows farrowed again in September and early October, and we went into the winter with 162 young pigs.