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By Jack Joseph Smith

I ain't had no more trouble with any kind a live- stock then I had with pigs. One time we was att- empting to get a load off the god damm wagon and this pig just wouldn't take to moving. I climbed over the side, came up behind the son a bitch an took an jamed its tail right up its ass. Do ya think it moved? Hell no. So I goes back over dat railing and comes back round to the front of the son a bitch with an iron bar I just happened to pick up and beat that pig over the snout until it squealed so bad I got fraid of losing my pro- fit. Sometimes a man just got to sit things out I guess, even if it's for a hog...

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GPT

A dialect speaker recounts trying to force a pig from a wagon, then fears losing profit after striking it. The speaker ends by considering whether to sit things out.

The speaker relates force and profit within a short livestock account. This is another draft of the monologue on nearby pages; its source wording and spelling differ and should not be standardized.

Claude

A typed retelling of the pig monologue in standard prose rows: 'I ain't had no more trouble with any kind a live- / stock then I had with pigs.', ending 'Sometimes a man just got to sit things out / I guess, even if it's for a hog...'

This version smooths some of the dialect, which makes the violence plainer and the closing shrug more pointed.