offereth common with His son Christ our Lord, lest they should love
their pigs with the Gergenites." p. 409.

Again:

"This is a hard sermon: 'Who is able to abide it?' Therefore, Christ
must be prayed to depart, lest all their pigs be drowned. The devil
shall have his dwelling again in themselves, rather than in their
pigs." p. 409.

These, and similar expressions in the same writer, without reference to any
text upon the subject, seem to show, that men loving their pigs more than
God, was a theological phrase of the day, descriptive of their too great
worldliness. Hence, just as St. Paul said, "if the Lord will," or as we
say, "please God," or, as it is sometimes written, "D.V.," worldly men
would exclaim, "please the pigs," and thereby mean that, provided it suited
their present interest, they would do this or that thing.

ALFRED GATTY.

Ecclesfield.

[We subjoin the following Query, as one so closely connected with the
foregoing, that the explanation of the one will probably clear up the
obscurity in which the other is involved.]

{424} _To save One's Bacon._--Can you or any of your correspondents inform
me of the origin of the common saying, "He's just saved his bacon?" It has
puzzled me considerably, and I really can form no conjecture why "bacon"
should be the article "saved."