“162. I must not, however, anticipate of this eventful history so far as to discuss at present any manner of the resemblance in my fate, or work, or home companionship to those of St Anthony of Padua; but may record, as immediately significant, the delight which both my mother and I took in the possession of a really practical pigstye in our Danish farmyard, (the coach-house and stables being to us of no importance in comparison); the success with which my mother directed the nurture, and fattening, of the piglings; the civil and jovial character of the piglings so nurtured, indicated especially by their habit of standing in a row on their hind-legs to look over the fence, whenever my mother came into the yard: and conclusively by the satisfaction with which even our most refined friends would accept a present of pork – or it might be, alas! sometimes of sucking pig – from Denmark Hill.”

(John Ruskin, Præterita, Volume II, Chapter VIII, p. 346 in the Everyman’s edition.)