"Bet you don't know what Ginger's saying" said Gunner"I thought all she said these days was 'Where's my tea?' and 'get out of my way young snorters' and 'For the Great Hog's sake, stop squealing' " said Mangel
"That's what she says when you lot are listening. What she said to me and my mate Pilot was that it's not going to be too long till she's her own boss again."
"What do you mean?" said Wurzel "Only one boss around here - apart from The Big Boss, of course."
"Well, the other evening when she was waiting for Him to make her dinner, she gruntled to me that if she were in the wild, she'd have got shot of them by now. Not that she's not very fond of them, she said, but a sow's got to have a bit of peace and quiet from time to time and there is no way there's any of that with 7 little squealers around all the time."
"Hmmmm" said Mangel thoughtfully
"Now what's going on in that pig head of yours?" asked Wurzel
"Never you mind; just hmmmmmmm" said Mangel in a very cheerful manner. "I thought I felt a touch of spring in the air only yesterday."
"What's it got to do with spring?" asked Gunner quizzically.
"Damned if I know" said Wurzel "Feels pretty much like midwinter to me!"
"You two can stay here and gossip all you like; I've got to go and have a word with those big blokes down in the field. Ask them if they've heard anything. They keep telling me how smart they are - let's go hear what they know......"
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