Lincolnshire, where the hogs shite soap, and cows shite fire.

The inhabitants, of the poorer sort, washing their clothes with hogs-dung, and burning dried cow-dung for want of a better fuel.

Entry taken from Provincial Glossary, edited by Francis Grose.

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