Bee Helpful

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"What are you going to do with that rope?" asked Don, as Grandpa came
from the shed with a coil of rope on his arm.

"Come with me, and you will find out," answered Grandpa. "And you may
call Joyce, too, if you wish."

Don ran to the house to get Joyce, and soon the two came back together.
They followed Grandpa down the lane toward the pasture where he kept his
pigs. The children kept asking him what he intended to do, but he would
only answer, "Wait and see."

Grandpa had a good many grown hogs, and ten little pigs. He opened the
pasture gate and called to them, and they all came out into the lane,
grunting and squealing. Then he coaxed them toward the pig-pen that he
had been building. He closed the gate, and turning to the children said,
"Now if you watch me, you will see what I intend to do with the rope."

When the children were both safe on the other side of the fence, Grandpa
climbed into the pig-pen and coiled the rope a number of times in his
hands. Then he cast it from him, and it fell over one of the little pigs.
He drew it in, and the pig was caught. Then he lifted him and placed him
in the pen. How the little fellow squealed, and how hard the old hogs
tried to get to him! Some of the larger ones started toward the fence
where Don and Joyce were perched on posts. Grandpa laughed to see how
quickly the children scrambled down.