Strand magazine was a popular monthly that ran from 1891 to 1950. In 1899 the magazine asked famous Victorians to draw a picture of a pig while blindfolded. The one below was drawn by Hiram S. Maxim, inventor of the machine gun.
"Referring to his pig, Mr. Maxim writes: 'I have just a suspicion that the pigs that are so well drawn in your album are by people who had their eyes partly open. The trouble with my pig is that my eyes were too tightly closed." But nobody will find fault with Mr. Maxim's animal on that score or on any other. It bears the imprint of his matchless genius, and is certainly suggestive of the action of his incomparable gun."
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