He is driving pigs, or driving pigs to market—i.e. snoring like pigs, whose grunt resembles the snore of a sleeper.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.