"
Morgan reached for a telegraph blank and wrote:
"Agent, Westcote. Don't sell pigs."
He then wrote Flannery a letter calling his attention to the fact that the
pigs were not the property of the company but were merely being held
during a settlement of a dispute regarding rates. He advised Flannery to
take the best possible care of them.
Flannery, letter in hand, looked at the pigs and sighed. The dry-goods box
cage had become too small. He boarded up twenty feet of the rear of the
express office to make a large and airy home for them, and went about his
business. He worked with feverish intensity when out on his rounds, for
the pigs required attention and took most of his time. Some months later,
in desperation, he seized a sheet of paper and wrote "160" across it and
mailed it to Morgan. Morgan returned it asking for explanation. Flannery
replied:
"There be now one hundred sixty of them dago pigs, for heavens sake let me
sell off some, do you want me to go crazy, what."
"Sell no pigs," Morgan wired.
Not long after this the president of the express company received a letter
from Professor Gordon.
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