Rudolf Erich Raspe: Gulliver revived, London 1786 (R3)

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Chance and good luck often correct our mistakes: of this I had a singular instance soon after, when in the depth of a forest I saw a wild pig and sow running close behind each other. My ball had missed them, yet the foremost pig only run away, and the sow stood motionless as fixed to the ground. On examining into the matter I found the latter one to be an old sow, blind with age, which had taken hold of her pigʼs, tail, in order to be led along by filial duty. My ball having passed between the two, had cut this leading string, of which the old sow continued to hold in her mouth; and as her former guide did not draw her on any longer, she had stopt of course; I therefore laid hold of the remaining end of the pigʼs tail, and led the old beast home without any further trouble on my part, and without any reluctance or apprehension on the part of the helpless old animal.

R3, S. 17-18

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