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1628: Aggers has noticed some of the smaller motor-moppers on the outfield - machines not big enough to be a "waterhog", but once described by former TMS summariser Mike Selvey as "water-piglets".
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He creeps nearer with wonderful agility and noiselessness, and when he is sure of success he makes his spring, tears open the throat of the antelope, sheep, or waterhog, and drags his booty into the thicket.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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