Squinty the Comical Pig / His Many Adventures

his hands. His two sisters, who were playing with their dolls in the sha

t, Bob? Wh

trick!" answered the boy. "H

?" asked the smaller sist

"He can do two tricks--find h

ally jump a rop

e and see!" t

d picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the ro

s sisters to watch me jump over a rope, and dig up acorns, I don't mind doing

re both rig

in the shade, and ran over toward their brother, who still

e tricks for us,

jumps the rope

s that's easier," spoke Bob. "Here, Squint

ome sweet acorn nuts into it, and covered them up with dirt. Squinty had no

ould smell even close by. And Squinty could also tell, by digging in the ground with his queer, rubbery nose, just where the ground

n nuts, even though the little pig had not seen just wher

find them!"

tch!" exclai

m. He thought perhaps he was to jump over the rope after another apple. But he saw no fruit waiting for him.

ts any tricks, you must be both kind and gentle with them, for you

I guess the boy must want me to do the first trick,

te plainly. When he turned the other way he could not smell them quite so well. So he s

very hard for his nose, but soon it became soft. Th

right toward the

s them!" excl

Mollie. "I wouldn't h

e where the boy had covered the acorns with

jump the rope,

he eats the acorns

apple, just for jumping a rope

t him to eat the apple. He did not count the rope-jumping par

ld in his hand, and the other was around Squinty's leg, but a loop of it was made fast to a stick stuck i

inty! Jump over it

get it. But, when he ran toward it, he found the rope raised up in fr

would jump the rope!" said

ute," spoke the boy. "Com

ump the rope to get it. So he did it again. Over the rope he went, with a little jump, com

he boy. "Didn't

p it fast, back and forth, l

good--for a littl

ach him to jump real fast, and without going for an app

is. "So I am to learn more tricks, it seems.

ain," suggested Mo

o make him jump for an apple each time. After a bit I'll not give him an app

ally built for the little pig. As soon as he was in it Squinty ran over to

ile," said the boy with a laugh. "

ould be glad to have the milk now. But he got none, so h

at first he was back in the p

acorns, and do lots of tricks. But I--!" And then Squinty stopped. He looked around and found himself all alone in the new

ht Squinty, a bit sorrowfully. "It's all

rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks. And it did not take Squinty long to l

the rope,

apple as soon as he jumped, he did get it afterward, which wa

your hind legs, Squinty. It is not going to be easy, either. But I guess you can do it. And

so much, and liked his new home, and the nuts and apples he

d, by taking hold of Squinty's front feet

y his hands of course Squinty came down on all four le

n a corner to start with," the bo

e a corner and the little pig was stood up on his hind legs in that. Then, with something to lean his back against, he

up without anything to lean against. And, a little later, you will be

ved his reward for start

le pig found that he could sit up on his hind leg

k on his hind legs

ld Squinty's front feet, and walked along with him so the litt

you to walk to me all

ed away from him, and stood a little distance o

the potato," c

Squinty. "I can't!" I

e boy. "Don't be af

his hind legs. If he let himself down on all four legs he knew the boy would not give

himself on his hind legs,

when Squinty reached him, and took the potato out of his hand.

aled Squinty, ve

comical little pig

nd legs, with an apple on his nose. And

Squi

n the air, off his nose, and catch it

a gun, and play soldier. He liked this trick best of

they laughed very hard when Squinty looked at them with his queer, drooping eye. They would feed him a

r were left open, Squinty might wander away. And that is exactly what Squinty did. He did not mean to do wrong, but he knew no better. One evening, after he had done ma

out, "I guess I'll go take a walk by my

such as the farmer had at Squinty's first home. Bu

hat happens," thought Squinty. "

ty ran away