Squinty the Comical Pig / His Many Adventures

rhaps? Of course your little brother or sister may not have intended to run away, it may have been that they only wandered off, around the corne

down among his brothers and sisters, in the clean straw, Wuff-Wuff, Squealer, and Curly Tail, and the others, were so g

ty, where

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naway pig. They pressed close up to him, rubbing their funny, wiggling, rubber-like no

had their turn, Mr. Pig and M

run away?" aske

have an adventu

have one?" as

little pig. "But I didn't find very mu

te for supper. It is all eaten up. We did not see t

of the sour milk that had been in the feed

the bottom of the wooden trough. These he licked up

pen, after he had put some more stones and a board over the hole where Squinty had

el, where the pigs' feed was kept, and mixed a nice pailful of

quinty as he made a rus

ther little pigs, as they, too,

had yours!" and he and Mrs. Pig would not let Squinty's brothers and sisters shove him away from the

punished by being sent to bed without having had anything to eat, but you see the farmer

all cuddle down in the straw, pulling it over them with her nose and paws, like a blanket, to keep them

ted to hear all about what had happened to him when he had run away, and they wanted

o you, Squinty?"

e swim in a broo

pened to me," said W

n Squinty, "but I did not like the tas

id Wuff-Wuff. "Did a

weed, and ate that, and

il. "I wish that had happened to me

w something I thought was a potato, and i

aler. "I wish I had seen it

her potato, but when I bit on it I found i

"I am glad that did not happen t

en Mrs. Pig

igs must keep quiet and go t

p until morning. They were running around the pen before breakfast, squealing as loudly as they could, for the farmer to come and feed them. But the farmer had his cows and horses and chicke

though he were talking to the pig

s did eat it! Some of the smaller pigs even put two feet in the trough, they were so anxious to get their share

to do until dinner time--that is, all they had to do was to lie down

ailed a bigger board over the hole by which Squinty had gotten out. "Don, watch these p

d that meant he would do

to clean them of mud and make them cool. Once in a while the farmer would take a corn cob and scratch the back of Mr. or Mr

at the farmhouse. There were the sounds of boys' a

his brothers and sisters, looking up, saw, over the ed

hey cute!" ex

id another girl.

any tricks?" asked a boy who s

s pigs," spoke one of the g

for a little while, watchin

some weeds a

they were more glad when the boy and the girls threw pig weed, and other green

nd the girls running about the garden, but they could not see them because the boards a

the hens' eggs, and feeding the little calve

e pen, and, leaning over the top board he

oy, "do let me have just one

the boy, 'do let me ha

o with a pig in our town? We are not in

in our yard. Look, let me have that on

d the farmer. The boy and his father and

at one," and he pointed straight at Squinty. Poor Squinty ran and tri

es, I think he is the nicest pig in

," the farmer said. "He ha

," the boy went on. "Please, Fat

him, though. You could keep him in the back yard. Yes, I guess you could have him, if Mr. Jones will sell him, an

un away out of the pen a couple of times, but if you bo

imed the boy. "I do so want a little

his mind, if the boy took him, tha

little pig?" asked t

can carry him," was the answer. "We can't very well

, too," lau