toothbrushful

The pigs he describes as weird pictures of porcine woe, with noses so long and pointed that a drove seen rooting about in a cane-piece was mistaken for a pack of under-sized deerhounds lazily picking up a lost scent; as for ham, it would have taken several hogs to supply that necessary part of the sandwiches even for a small picnic; while there was not a toothbrushful of bristles on the whole herd.