I was busy making a cuppa after a huge battle with the weeds and Kikuju grass, when I heard the little cock, who thought himself king of my homestead, and who had become quite forward since Lelie had gone, cackling and puck-pucking to high heavens, and when I looked out, found to my horror that Kevin Bacon had escaped, and was rolling around in a muddy hole where I had just that morning planted a new tree, but of said tree nothing was left.
I went out feeling very much afraid, and in my sweetest voice I spoke softly to the beast, begging him to follow me back to his own sty! But Kevin Bacon stopped rolling around, and then stood motionless, sizing me up with his small pink eyes! That was that, and all my courage having evaporated by now, I closed my door and legged it over to The childrens's house, where I found Jan and Andreas all dressed up in their freshly laundered karate suits.
But there was nothing for it, Jan had to come and fetch his mud covered beast, but this beast had no intention of giving up his new found freedom, and after making sure that Jan had brought nothing to gobble up, he slipped through my little gate and that was the beginning of the one of the funniest moments we had in Haarlem yet!
Nina, who was pregnant at this time came to see if she could help, had opened the kitchen door where Mobi was confined after the villagers had sent a posse to warn Jan of trouble if the dog did not stop stealing from them. This kind of operation fitted right into Mobi's catagory of enjoyment, and with a yelp and a bark he set off to help Jan catch the pig.
As Jan had just got the pig, with a  piece of old bread from my kitchen as bait, to follow him, he was not impressed when, on seeing Mobi coming, the pig gave a startled scream and legged it to the other side of my place. Mobi thought this the best sport of his life, and stormed at the pig, who was letting out the most unearthly screams before he decided to have a go at the irritating dog.
By this time Nina had joined in this farce, and with her protruding tummy and all, was trying to catch the frollicking dog, but he was not giving up his sport so easily, and did not heed her cries for him to stop his nonsense. Jan was by now not looking as fresh and whitely dressed as a few minutes before, and I could see that his temper was far from good, but had to laugh a few times when he made a dash for my yard when Kevin stormed in his direction, his ugly yellow teeth bared, his red eyes glinting.
I stood at a safe distance, as that pig was no playmate of mine, and as a matter of fact, I was bally scared of him. If only Nina was able to get Mobi out, kevin would have calmed down, as he was eyeing the bread Jan held out to him with hungry eyes, but with the dog's barking and running around there was no chance of him following Jan docilely. A few times Nina had also to do a few escape tricks, as Kevin couldn't care who he killed, thinking that the whole world was against his having a bit of freedom, and stormed anything that caught his eye.
The little white cock had flown onto the fence from where he sat in safety watching this drama, his head rolling from side to side to keep the pig in his eyesight.
Jan at last got hold of Mobi, and as he was too strong for Nina, he took the dog, who was now whining like a naughty child, home, where he was safely locked up behind the kitchen door. From then on things started looking up, as, with his pet enemy away, Kevin's eating lust overcame him, and he followed Jan meekly towards his sty.
Jan was now so smeared with mud that he took off his karate suit, and it was only Andreas who had any fun at the karate class that night!