 This didn't actually happen. No, husband did not bring home a pig, but he might have. And when I wrote the poem, I was thinking of an old 17th century word where housewifery is spelled huswifery. And that's always fascinated me how that was spelled. And the words meant a lot of things through the ages. But, of course, now when we think of housewife, it's the menial tasks that the woman has to do.