Squinty the Comical Pig - His Many Adventures by Richard Barnum
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"Bow wow!" barked Don. "I will!"
But the pigs did not need much driving, for they were very good, and did not want to cause Don, or the farmer, any trouble if they could help it. Soon Squinty and the others were safely in the pen again. The farmer looked at them carefully. "So, you thought you'd like to get out and have a run, did you?" he asked, speaking to pigs just as if they could understand him. And they did, just as your dog understands, and minds you when you call to him to come to you. "So you wanted a run in the garden, eh?" went on the farmer. "Well, I don't blame you, for it isn't much fun to stay cooped up in a pen all the while. But still I can't have you out. But I'll give you a nice lot of pig weed, just the same, for you must be hungry." Then the farmer pulled up some more of the green stuff, and tossed it into the pen. He also gave them plenty of sour milk, which pigs like better than sweet milk. Besides, it is cheaper. "Well, I guess you won't run away again," the farmer went on, as he nailed back on the pen the board which Squinty had pushed off. Perhaps the farmer thought one of the big pigs--the papa or mamma one--had made the hole for the others to get out. I am sure he never thought little Squinty, with his comical eye, did it. But we know Squinty did, don't we? For some time after this Squinty was a very-good pig, indeed. Not that I |
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