Pound (village)
An animal pound was a place where stray livestock such as pigs would impounded in a dedicated enclosure until claimed by their owners, or sold to cover the costs of impounding.
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“Modern civilization has bred a race with brains like those of rabbits and we who are the heirs of the witch-doctor and the voodoo. We artists who have been so long the despised are about to take over control.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)