Dinner at the Simpsons’, being complicated by the seven little Simpsons, was a long and stormy affair, from which ’Possum and her father escaped before it had raged its way to a close.  Nick O’Connor had bought a pig, and was anxious to get home. Mr. Simpson conveyed it to the water’s edge in a wheelbarrow, tied in a sack, through a hole in which its head protruded, while it emitted the agonized shrieks peculiar to pigs.  It redoubled these on being dumped into the boat, having, apparently, an aversion to a sea-faring life; and under cover of its wails ’Possum and Nick screamed their farewells to their host, and pushed off.