While the end may not be near, the 15 minutes of fame are probably over for the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig that has been on the lam from Colby College over the last few weeks.

Last week, the pig succumbed to the temptations of french fries at a West River Road home just long enough to get nailed with a Taser and taken into custody by Waterville police. It's now on its way to a real home in Casco, at a preschool that's also a mini-farm that features another pig, three goats, two donkeys, eights hens, a rooster, two turkeys and a couple of ducks. We wish we'd gone to a preschool like that; instead, we got our jollies secondhand by reading "Charlotte's Web."

In any event, the pig got apprehended after several weeks of wandering around the Waterville area, followed avidly by readers of this newspaper as well as by television viewers and radio listeners.

Now, we'll have to go back to our lives of humdrum and tedious routine, minus the almost daily, smile-inducing updates about the peripatetic porker. And while the Colby pig will have to give up his wanderings and all the attendant fame, we figure he'll still have a lot of excitement in his life, surrounded as he will be with a barnyard full of kids and other animals.

E.B. White couldn't have imagined a better conclusion to the story.