The couple adopt Saxo, a potbellied piglet, as a pet who takes a central place in everyone’s hearts. Adults, children and animals interact in the Fete of the Dancing Pig, a concoction of fairy tale, local lore and a seminal work by E.P. Evans, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals – The Lost History of Europe’s Animal Trials, first published in 1906, paperback edition, Faber and Faber London, 1987.
The book concludes with a senile, Rabelaisian Saxo, 12 years later, rehearsing subsequent developments.
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