Hogspore News: A free truckload of used bricks

By Clet Litter as told to Bob Simpson

The town received a free truckload of used bricks from an old house. We used them to pave the Town Rectangle. Workers couldn’t break apart some of the chimney without damaging the bricks. The building was so ancient that the mortar recipe was long gone. Whatever the goo was, it’s there forever. The town council had an idea to use the remaining 4-foot chimney part. A statue of the founding father, Judge Rinseonce Hogspore, stands atop the chimney on a new roundabout in the Town Rectangle. Get close to the statue, and you can spot the silver dollar coin that the judge flipped, when he couldn’t make a judicial decision.

Here’s an update for Bring Your Mule to Work Day from Friday: The mules did not forget last year’s attempt to make peace between the city mules and the rural mules. This time, Mayor Ringer had a plan to give both factions a common enemy they hated: Him. He announced, “All the mules are selfish and have no civic pride.” Every mule in Muleberry County is now slowly clopping in front of the Mayor’s house 24 hours a day. They’re braying slurs and leaving mushy offerings on the sidewalk.