A most singular occurrence took place at the farm goading
of Whitehill, in the pariah of Kirkinahoe (Scotland), on the afternoon of Thursday last, during the prevalence of the appalling thunder-storm which passed over the district. A sow, with eight pigs, the latter five weeks old, was burrowing and feeding in the farm-yard ; when sud- denly, to the unspeakable astonishment of the servants who wit- nessed.the phenomenon, two of the pigs were whirled into the air, and deposited on the roof of the neighbouring barn ! The building being slated, and slippery from the rain, the affrighted grumphios, who assuredly never contemplated rising so high in the world, slid a considerable way down the roof ; and the labourers ran to catch them in their descent, and save them from injury,—the servant lasses holding out their aprons for the purpose but the little animals recovered their feet before reaching the ledge, slid along to the end of the barn, from thence descended to the roof of a shed somewhat lower, and finally dropped into the soft garden behind, without sustaining the slightest injury.
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