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Squinty the Comical Pig - Richard Barnum · The Jungle Book

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of Squinty the Comical Pig. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Jadopi. Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, Squinty and the Dog. Squinty was a little pig.
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  Speaker 1: You could tell he was a pig just as soon
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  Speaker 1: as you looked at him, because he had the cutest
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  Speaker 1: little curly tail, as though it wanted to tie itself
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  Speaker 1: into a bow but was not quite sure whether that
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  Speaker 1: was the right thing to do. And Squinty had a
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  Speaker 1: skin that was as pink under his white, hairy bristles
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  Speaker 1: as a baby's toes. Also, Squinty had the oddest nose.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like a rubber ball flattened out. And
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  Speaker 1: when Squinty moved his nose up and down or sideways,
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  Speaker 1: as he did when he smelled the nice sour milk
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  Speaker 1: the armor was bringing for the pig's dinner. Why when
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  Speaker 1: Squinty did that with his nose, it just made you
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  Speaker 1: want to laugh right out loud. But the funniest part
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  Speaker 1: of Squinty was his eyes, or rather one eye, and
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  Speaker 1: that eye squinted just as well as any eye ever squinted.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow or other. I don't just know why exactly, or
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  Speaker 1: I would tell you the lid of one of Squinty's
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  Speaker 1: eyes was heavier than the other. That eye opened only
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  Speaker 1: half way. And when Squinty looked up at you from
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  Speaker 1: the pen where he lived with his mother and father
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  Speaker 1: and little brothers and sisters, why there was such a
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  Speaker 1: comical look on Squinty's face that you wanted to laugh
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  Speaker 1: right out loud again. In fact, lots of boys and girls,
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  Speaker 1: when they came to look at Squinty in his pen,
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  Speaker 1: could not help laughing when he peered up at them
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  Speaker 1: with one eye widely open and the other half shut.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what a comical pig, The boys and girls would cry.
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  Speaker 1: What is his name? Oh? Well, I guess we'll call
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  Speaker 1: him Squinty, the farmer said, And so Squinty was named.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps if his mother had had her way about it,
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  Speaker 1: she would have given Squinty another name, as she did
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  Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters. In fact, she did name all
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  Speaker 1: of them except Squinty. One of the little pigs was
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  Speaker 1: named wolf Woff, Another curly tail, another squealer, another wee wee,
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  Speaker 1: and another puffball. There were seven pigs in all, and
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  Speaker 1: Squinty was the last one. So you see he came
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  Speaker 1: from quite a large family. When his mother had named
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  Speaker 1: six of her little pigs, she came to Squinty. Let
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  Speaker 1: me see, grunted missus pig in her own way. For
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  Speaker 1: you know, animals have a language of their own which
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  Speaker 1: no one else can understand. Let me see, said missus pig,
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  Speaker 1: Why shall I call you? She was thinking of naming
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  Speaker 1: him Floppy because the lid of one of his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I sort of flopped down. But just then a lot
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  Speaker 1: of boys and girls came running out to the pig pen.
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  Speaker 1: The boys and girls had come on a visit to
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  Speaker 1: the farmer who owned the pigs, and when they looked
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  Speaker 1: in and saw a big mister and missus pig and
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  Speaker 1: the little ones, one boy called out, oh, what a
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  Speaker 1: queer little pig with one eye partly open, and how
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  Speaker 1: funny he looks at you. What is his name? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we'll call him Squinty, the farmer had said.
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  Speaker 1: And so just as I have told you, Squinty got
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  Speaker 1: his name. Humph, Squinty exclaimed, missus pig, as she heard
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  Speaker 1: what the farmer said, I don't know as I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it will do very well, answered mister pig. It
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  Speaker 1: will save you thinking up a name for him. And
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  Speaker 1: after all, you know he does squint not that it
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  Speaker 1: amounts to anything. In fact, it is rather stylish, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Let him be called Squinty, all right, answered missus Pig.
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  Speaker 1: So Squinty it was, Hello Squinty, called the boys and girls,
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  Speaker 1: giving the little pig his new name. Hello Squinty. Um umph,
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  Speaker 1: grunted Squinty. That meant in his language hello. You see,
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  Speaker 1: for those Squinty and his mother and father and brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters could understand man talk and boy and girl talk.
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  Speaker 1: They could not speak that language themselves, but had to
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  Speaker 1: talk in their own way. Nearly all animals understand our talk,
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  Speaker 1: even though they cannot speak to us. Just look at
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  Speaker 1: a dog, for instance, when you called to him, come here,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't he come? Of course he does. And when you
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  Speaker 1: say lie down, sir, doesn't he lie down? That is,
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  Speaker 1: if he's a good dog and minds. He understands anyhow.
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  Speaker 1: And see how horses understand how to go when the
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  Speaker 1: driver says yep, And how they stopped when he says, WHOA.
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  Speaker 1: So you need not think it strange that a little
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  Speaker 1: pig could understand our kind of talk, though he could
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  Speaker 1: not speak it himself well. Squinty, the comical pig, lived
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  Speaker 1: with his mother and father and brothers and sisters in
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  Speaker 1: the farmer's pen for some time. As the days went on,
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  Speaker 1: Squinty grew fatter and fatter, until his pink skin under
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  Speaker 1: his white bristles was swelled out like a balloon. Hmm,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed the farmer one day, as he leaned over the
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  Speaker 1: top of the pen to look down on the pigs
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  Speaker 1: after he had poured their dinner into the trough. Hmm,
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  Speaker 1: that little pig with the squinty eyes getting pretty big.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was going to be a little runt,
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  Speaker 1: but he seems to be growing as fast as the others.
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  Speaker 1: Squinty was glad when he heard that, for he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to grow up to be a fine, large pig. The
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  Speaker 1: farmer took a corn cob from which all the yellow
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  Speaker 1: kernel of corn had been shelled, and with it he
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  Speaker 1: scratched the back of Squinty. Pigs liked to have their
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  Speaker 1: backs scratched, just as cats like to have. You rub
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  Speaker 1: their smooth fur, or tickle them under the ears. Ah Ugh,
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  Speaker 1: grunted Squinty, looking up at the farmer with his comical eyes,
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  Speaker 1: one half shut and the other wide open, and with
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  Speaker 1: his odd eyes, and one ear cocked forward and the
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  Speaker 1: other flopping over backward. Squinty looked so funny that the
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  Speaker 1: farmer had to laugh out loud. What's the matter, rufus,
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  Speaker 1: asked the farmer's wife. Who is getting the eggs? Oh
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  Speaker 1: it's this pig, laughed the farmer. He has such a
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  Speaker 1: queer look on his face. Let me see, exclaimed the
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  Speaker 1: farmer's wife. She too looked down into the pen. Oh
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  Speaker 1: isn't he comical? She cried? Then, being a very kind
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  Speaker 1: lady and liking all the farm animals, the farmer's wife
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  Speaker 1: went out in the hato patch and pulled up some
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  Speaker 1: pig weed. This is a green weed that grows in
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  Speaker 1: the garden, but it does no good there. Instead, it
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  Speaker 1: does harm, and farmers like to pull it up to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of it. But if pig weed is no
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  Speaker 1: good for the garden, it is good for pigs, and
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  Speaker 1: they like to chew the green leaves here. Squinty called
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  Speaker 1: the farmer's wife tossing some of the juicy green weed
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  Speaker 1: to the little pig eat. This uugh ugh grunted Squinty,
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  Speaker 1: and he began to chew the green leaves. I suppose
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  Speaker 1: that was his way of saying thank you. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as Squinty's brothers and sisters saw the green pig weed
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  Speaker 1: the farmer's wife had tossed into the pen up, they
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  Speaker 1: rushed to the trough, grunting and squealing to get some too.
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  Speaker 1: They pushed and scrambled and even stepped into the trough,
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  Speaker 1: so eager were they to get something to eat, even
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  Speaker 1: though they had been fed only a little while before.
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  Speaker 1: That is one strange thing about pigs. They seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be always hungry, and Squinty's brothers and sisters were no
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  Speaker 1: different from other pigs. But wait just a moment. They
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  Speaker 1: were a bit different, for they were much cleaner than
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  Speaker 1: many pigs I have seen. The farmer who owned them
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  Speaker 1: knew the pigs do not like to live in mud
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  Speaker 1: and dirt any more than do cows and horses. So
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  Speaker 1: this farmer had for his pigs a nice pen with
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  Speaker 1: a dry board floor and plenty of corn husks for
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  Speaker 1: their bed. They had clean water to drink, and a
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  Speaker 1: shady place in which to lie down and sleep. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: there was a mud bath in the pig pen. For
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  Speaker 1: no matter how clean pigs are, once in a while
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  Speaker 1: they like to roll in the mud. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you the reason for that. You see, flies and mosquitoes
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  Speaker 1: and other pests like to bite pigs. The pigs know this,
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  Speaker 1: and they also know that if they roll in the
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  Speaker 1: mud and get covered with it, the mud will make
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  Speaker 1: a coating over them to keep the biting flies away.
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  Speaker 1: So that is why pigs like to roll in the
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  Speaker 1: mud once in a while, just as you sometimes see
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  Speaker 1: a circus elephant scattered dust over his back to drive
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  Speaker 1: away the flies. And even such a thick skinned animal
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  Speaker 1: as a rhinoceros likes to plaster himself with mud to
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  Speaker 1: keep away the insects. But after Squinty and his brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters had rolled in the mud, they were always
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  Speaker 1: glad when the farmer came with a garden hose and
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  Speaker 1: washed them clean again, so their pink skins showed beneath
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  Speaker 1: their white, hairy bristles. Squinty and the other pigs grew
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  Speaker 1: until they were a nice size. They had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do but eat and sleep, and of course that will
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  Speaker 1: make anyone grow now. Squinty, though he was not the
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  Speaker 1: largest of the family of pig children, was by far
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  Speaker 1: the smartest. He learned more quickly than did his brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters how to run to the trough to eat
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  Speaker 1: when his mother called him, and he learned how to
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  Speaker 1: and up against one side of the pen and rub
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  Speaker 1: himself back and forth to scratch his side when a
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  Speaker 1: mosquito had bitten him in a place he could not
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  Speaker 1: reach with his foot. In fact, Squinty was a little
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  Speaker 1: too smart. He wanted to do many things his brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters never thought of. One day, when Squinty and
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  Speaker 1: the others had eaten their dinner, Squinty told his brother
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  Speaker 1: wulf Wolf, that he thought it would be a nice
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  Speaker 1: thing to have some fun. Wolf Wulf said he thought
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  Speaker 1: so too, but he didn't just know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there was not much one could do in
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  Speaker 1: a pig pen. If we could only get out of here,
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  Speaker 1: grunted Squinty as he looked out through a crack in
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  Speaker 1: the boards and saw the green garden where pigweed was
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  Speaker 1: growing thickly. Yes, but we can't, said wolf Wolf. Squinty
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  Speaker 1: was not so sure about this. In fact, he was
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  Speaker 1: a very inquisitive little pig. That is, he always wanted
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  Speaker 1: to find out about things and why this and that
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  Speaker 1: was so, and what made the wheels go round and
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  Speaker 1: all like that. I think I can get out through
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  Speaker 1: that place, said Squinty to himself. A little later, he
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  Speaker 1: had found another crack between two boards of the pen,
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  Speaker 1: a large crack, and one edge of the board was loose.
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  Speaker 1: Squinty began to push with his rubbery nose. A pig's
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  Speaker 1: nose is pretty strong, you know, for it is made
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  Speaker 1: for digging or rooting in the earth to turn up
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  Speaker 1: acorns and other good things to eat. Squinty pushed and
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  Speaker 1: pushed on the board until he had made it very loose.
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  Speaker 1: The crack was getting wider. Un I can surely get out,
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  Speaker 1: he thought. He looked around his mother and father, and
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  Speaker 1: all the little pigs were asleep in the shady part
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  Speaker 1: of the pen. I'm going, said Squinty to himself. He
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  Speaker 1: gave one extra hard push, and there he was through
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  Speaker 1: the big crack and outside the pen. It was the
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  Speaker 1: first time he had ever been out in his life.
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  Speaker 1: At first he was a little frightened, but when He
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  Speaker 1: looked over into the potato patch and saw pigweed growing there.
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  Speaker 1: He was happy. Ooh, what a good meal I shall
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  Speaker 1: have grunted Squinty. He ran toward a large bunch of
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  Speaker 1: the juicy green pigweed, but before he reached it, he
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  Speaker 1: heard a dreadful noise. Bow bow bow went some animal,
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  Speaker 1: and then came some growls, And the next moment Squinty
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  Speaker 1: saw rushing toward him Dawn, the big black and white
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  Speaker 1: dog of the farmer. Bowow bow bow barked Dawn, and
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  Speaker 1: that meant, in his language, get back in your pen, Squinty.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean by comin out? Get back bowow?
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  Speaker 1: Oh dear, oh dear, squealed Squinty, I shall be bitten.
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  Speaker 1: Shure that dog will bite me? Oh dear, Why did
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  Speaker 1: nice stay in the pen? Squinty turned on his little
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  Speaker 1: short legs as quickly as he could and started back
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  Speaker 1: for the pen. But it was not easy to run
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  Speaker 1: in a potato field, and Squinty, not having lived in
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  Speaker 1: the woods and fields as do some pigs, was not
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  Speaker 1: a very good runner. Bowow bowow barked down running after Squinty.
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  Speaker 1: I do not believe don really meant to hurt the
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  Speaker 1: Comical little Pig. In fact, I know he did not,
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  Speaker 1: for Don was very kind hearted. But Don knew that
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  Speaker 1: the pigs were supposed to stay in their pen and
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  Speaker 1: not come out to root up the garden. So Don barked,
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  Speaker 1: bow wow, bow wow, Get back where you belong, Squinty.
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  Speaker 1: Squinty ran as fast as he could, but Don ran faster.
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  Speaker 1: Squinty caught his foot in a melon vine, and down
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  Speaker 1: he went. Before he could get up, Don was close
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  Speaker 1: to him, and the next moment Squinty fell, his ear
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  Speaker 1: being taken between Dawn's strong white teeth. Oh dear, Oh dear,
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  Speaker 1: Oh dear, squealed Squinty in his own queer pig language,
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  Speaker 1: What is going to happen to me? End of chapter one.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Jadapi www dot public domain, audiobooks dot blogspot
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Chapter two of Squinty the Comical Pig. This
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, Squinty runs away between the barking of Don
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  Speaker 1: the dog and the squealing of Squinty, the comical pig,
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  Speaker 1: who was being led along by his ear. There was
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  Speaker 1: so much noise in the farmer's potato patch for a
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  Speaker 1: few moments that if you had been there, I think
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  Speaker 1: you would have wondered what was happening. Wowow wowow wowow,
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  Speaker 1: barked Dawn, still keeping hold of Squinty's ear, though he
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  Speaker 1: did not pinch very hard. Wowow, get back to your
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  Speaker 1: pen where you belong. Swee swee, squee yelled Squinty. Oh
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  Speaker 1: please let me go. I'll be good. And so it
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  Speaker 1: went on, the dog talking in his barking language and
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  Speaker 1: Squinty squealing in his pig talk. But they could easily
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  Speaker 1: understand one another, even if no one else could. Back
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  Speaker 1: in the pen, Missus Pig suddenly awakened from a nap,
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  Speaker 1: So did mister Pig and all the little pigs. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you hear something making a noise? Asked Missus Pig of
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  Speaker 1: her husband. Why, yes, I think I do, he answered, slowly,
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  Speaker 1: as he looked in the feed trough to see if
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  Speaker 1: the farmer had left any more sour milk there for
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  Speaker 1: the pig family to eat. But there was none. I
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  Speaker 1: hear someone squealing, said wolf Wolf, the largest boy pig
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  Speaker 1: of them all, So do I said squeaker. A little
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  Speaker 1: girl pig, Missus Pig, sat up and looked all over
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  Speaker 1: the pen. She was counting her children to see if
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  Speaker 1: they were all there. She did not see Squinty, and
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  Speaker 1: at once she became frightened. Squinty is gone, cried missus Pig.
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  Speaker 1: All where can he be? The squealing noise became louder,
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  Speaker 1: so did the barking of the dog. Look, there is
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  Speaker 1: a board off the side of the pen, said mister Pig. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Squinty wanted me to come out sign with him, said
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  Speaker 1: wolf Wolf. But I wouldn't go. Oh maybe my little
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  Speaker 1: boy pig is outside there making all that noise, cried
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  Speaker 1: Missus Pig to her husband. Well he isn't making all
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  Speaker 1: that no by himself, said the father pig. Someone is
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  Speaker 1: helping him make it. I'm sure. They all listened and
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  Speaker 1: heard the barking of Dawn as well as the squealing
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  Speaker 1: of Squinty. Oh, some animal has caught him, cried missus Pig.
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  Speaker 1: Then she pushed as hard as she could with her
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  Speaker 1: nose against the loose board near the hole in the pen,
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  Speaker 1: through which Squinty had run a little while before. Missus
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  Speaker 1: Pig soon knocked off the board, and then she ran
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  Speaker 1: out into the garden. Mister Pig and all the little
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  Speaker 1: pigs ran after her. The first thing Missus Pig saw
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  Speaker 1: was her little boy pig down on the ground in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a row of melon vines, with down
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  Speaker 1: holding Squinty's ear, bow barked Don. Squee Squee, cried Squinty. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you poor little pig, grunted missus Pig. What has happened
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  Speaker 1: to you? Oh mamma, squealed Squinty. I I ran out
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  Speaker 1: of the pig to see when it was lank outside,
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  Speaker 1: and I was just eating some pig weed when this
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  Speaker 1: big dog chased after me. Yes, I did, said Don,
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  Speaker 1: growling in his deep voice. The place for pigs, little
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  Speaker 1: or big, is in their pen. The farmer does not
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  Speaker 1: want you to come out and spoil his garden. He
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  Speaker 1: tells me to watch you and to drive you back
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  Speaker 1: if you come in it. This is the first time
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  Speaker 1: I've seen any of you pigs in the garden, went
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  Speaker 1: on Don, still keeping hold of Squinty's ear. And I
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  Speaker 1: want you please to go back in your pen. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go I'll go, cried Squinty. Only let loose of
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  Speaker 1: my ear, mister dog, if you please. What have you
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  Speaker 1: hold of Squinty's ear, asked wolf Wolf. Oh do please
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  Speaker 1: let him go? Yes, I will, now that you are here,
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  Speaker 1: said Don, and he took his strong white teeth from
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  Speaker 1: the piggy boy's ear. I did not bite him hard
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  Speaker 1: enough to hurt him, said Don, But I had to
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  Speaker 1: catch hold of him somewhere, and taken him by the
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  Speaker 1: ear was better than taking him by the tail. I think,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, indeed, agreed mister pig. Once when I was
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  Speaker 1: a little pig, a dog bit me on the tail,
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  Speaker 1: and I never got over it. In fact, I have
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  Speaker 1: the marks yet. And he tried to look around at
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  Speaker 1: his tail, which had a kink in it. But mister
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  Speaker 1: Pig was too fat to see his own tail. So
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  Speaker 1: that's why I took hold of Squinty by the ear
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  Speaker 1: went on down. Did I hurt you very much, he
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  Speaker 1: asked the little pig, who had run out of the pen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, not much, Squinty said, as he rubbed his
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  Speaker 1: ear with his paw. Then, as he saw a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of pigweed close to him, he began nibbling that, and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters, seeing him do this, began to
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: eat the pigweed. Also. Come, this will never do, barked
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  Speaker 1: on the dog. I am sorry, but all you pigs
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: must go back in your own pen. The farmer would
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: not like you to be out in his garden. Yes,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I suppose we must, said missus Pig, with a sigh.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yet it is very nice out in the garden, but
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: we must stay in our pen. Come, children, said mister Pig.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We must stay in our own place. For if we
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: rootin up the farmer's garden, much as we would like
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to do it, he would have no vegetables to eat
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: this winter. Then he might be angry at us and
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: would give us no more sour milk. So we will
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: go back to our pen. Bowow Bow, barked dawn. Running
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: here and there, I will show you the way back
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  Speaker 1: to your pen, he said kindly, and he capered about
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: here and there, driving the pigs back to the place
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  Speaker 1: where Squinty had run from, and where all the others
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: had come from, to see what had happened to him.
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  Speaker 1: The farmer, who was hoeing corn, heard the barking of
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: his dog, and he dropped the hoe and ran. Somethin
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: must have happened, he cried, Maybe the big bull has
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: gotten loose from his field and is chasing some one
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: with a red dress into the garden. He ran, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: then he saw Don driving Squinty and his brothers and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: sisters and mother and father back to the pen. Ah,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: so the pigs got loose, The farmer cried, good dog,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: chase em back, bow barked Don. I will. But the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: pigs did not need much driving, for they were very good.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: It did not want to cause Dawn or the farmer
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: any trouble if they could help it. Soon, Squinty and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the others were safely in the pen again. The farmer
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: looked at them carefully. So you thought you'd like to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: get out and have a run, did you, he asked,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: speaking to pigs, just as if they could understand him.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And they did, just as your dog understands and minds
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you when you call him to come to you. So
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you wanted a run in the garden, eh, went on
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the farmer. Well, I don't blame you, for it isn't
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: much fun to stay cooped up in a pen all
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the while. But still I can't have you out, but
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a nice lot of pig weed just
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the same, for you must be hungry. Then the farmer
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: pulled up some more of the green stuff and tossed
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: it into the pen. He also gave them plenty of
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: sour milk, which pigs like better than sweet milk. Besides
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: it is cheaper. Well, I guess you won't run away again,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the farmer went on, as he nailed back on the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: pen the board which Squinty had pushed off. Perhaps the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: farmer thought one of the big pigs, the papa or
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the mamma one, had made the hole for the others
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to get out. I am sure he never thought little Squinty,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: with his comical I did it. But we know Squinty did,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: don't we. For some time after this, Squinty was a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: very good pig. Indeed, not that I mean to say
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: he was bad when he ran out of the pen,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: for he did not know any better. But after the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: board was nailed on tightly again, he did not try
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to push it off. Perhaps he knew he could not
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: do it. Squinty and his brothers and sisters had lots
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: of fun in the pen, even if they could not
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: go out. They played games in the straw hiding away
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: from one another and squealing and grunting. When they were found,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: they raced around the pen, playing a game much like
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: our game of tag. And if they could have had
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: someone to tie a handkerchief over their eyes, they might
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: have played blind man's bluff, but of course they did
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: not really do this. However, they raced about and jumped
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: over each other's backs, and climbed upon the fat sides
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: of their father and mother while the big pigs lay
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: asleep in the shade. Squinty was a pig very fond
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of playing tricks. Sometimes he would take a choice tender
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: piece of pigweed which the farmer had tossed into the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: pen and hide it in the soft dirt in one corner. Now,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: let's see who can find it. Squinty would call to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters, and they would hunt all over
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  Speaker 1: for it, Rooting up the earth with their strong rubbery noses.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Digging in the dirt was good practice for them, and
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: their mother and father would watch them, saying, when they
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: grow up, they will be very good rooting pigs. Indeed, yes,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: very good. Then Squinty or his brothers or sisters would
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: root up the hidden pigweed. And the old pigs would
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: go to sleep again, for they did not need to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: practice digging, having done so when they were young. About
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: all they did was to eat and sleep and tell
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the little pigs how to behave Squinty, how is your
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: ear that Don the dog bit, asked Missus Pig of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: her little boy pig one day. Oh, it doesn't hurt me,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: answered Squinty. Don did not fight very hard. He only
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: wanted to catch. Yes, Don is a good dog, said
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Missus Pig. But you must be careful of other dogs. Squinty,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: why are not all dogs alike, the little pig boy asked.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Oh no, indeed, answered Missus Pig. Some of them are
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: very bad and savage. They would bite you very hard
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: if they got the chance. So whenever you see any
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: dog except Don running toward you, run away as fast
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: as you can, I will, promised Squinty. And he did
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: not know how soon he would be glad to remember
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: his mother's good advice. For some days nothing much happened
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in the pigpen. Once or twice, Squinty pushed his nose
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: against the board the farmer had nailed on. But it
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: was very tight, he found, and he could not push
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it off. Are you trying to get out again? Asked
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: wolf Wolf. Oh, I don't know, Squinty would answer. I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: think it would be fun if we all could, don't
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you No, Indeed, cried wulf Wolf. Some big dog might
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: chase us. I want to stay in the pen. But
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Squinty was a brave, bold, mischievous little pig. He was
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: not content to stay in the pen. He wanted to
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: have some adventures. He wanted to get out in the garden,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: which looked so nice and green. Squinty looked all around
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the other sides of the pen. He wanted to see
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: if there was another loose board. If there was, he
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: made up his little pig mind that he would go
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: out again. But he said nothing of this to his
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: brothers or sisters, or to his father or mother. He
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: felt that they would not like him to go away again.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: But there is not much fun staying in the pen.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: All the while, thought Squinty, I wish I could get out. Squinty,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you see, had made up his mind to run away.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Often horses run away, so I don't see why pigs
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: can't also. Anyhow, that was what Squinty intended to do.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: But for nearly a week After his first adventure in
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the garden, Squinty had no chance to slip out of
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the pen. All the boards seemed very tight. Then one
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: day it was very hot the sun shone brightly. Dig
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: holes for yourselves in the cool ground, and lie down
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: in them, said missus pig. That will cool you off.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Each little pig dug a hole for himself, just as
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a hen does when she wants to take a dust bath.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Squinty dug his hole near the lower edge of the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: boards on one side of the pen. I'll make a
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: big hole, he thought to himself. And as Squinty dug down,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he noticed that he could see under the bottom of
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the boards. He could look right out into the garden.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: That is very queer, thought the little pig boy. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: believe I can get out of the pen by crawling
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: under a board, as well as by pushing one loose
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: from the side. I'll try it. Squinty was learning things,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you see, So he dug the hole deeper and deeper,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and soon it was large enough for him to slip
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: under the bottom board. Now I can run away, he
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: grunted softly to himself. He looked all around the pen,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: his father, mother, sisters, and brothers were fast asleep in
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: their cool holes of earth. I'm going, said Squinty, And
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the next moment he had slipped under the side of
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the pen through the hole he had dug, and once
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: more he was out in the garden. Now for some adventures,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: said Squinty in a jolly whisper, A pig's whisper, you know.
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• 29:07
  Speaker 1: three of Squinty the Comical Pig. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 29:13
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• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum, Squinty is Lost.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: This was the second time Squinty had run out of
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the pen and into the farmer's garden. The first time
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: he had been caught and brought back by Don the dog.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: This time, Squinty did not intend to get caught if
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: he could help it. So, after crawling out through the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: hole under the pen, the little pig came to a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: stop and looked carefully on all sides of him. His
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: one little squinty eye was opened as wide as it
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: would open, and the other eye was opened still wider.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Squinty wanted to see all there was to be seen.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: He cocked one ear up in front of him to
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: listen to any sounds that might come from that direction,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and the other ear he drooped over toward his back
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to hear any noises that might come from behind him.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: What Squinty was especially listening for was the barking of
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Dawn the dog. For thought Squinty, I don't want don
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to catch me again and make me go back before
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I've had any fun. It will be time enough to
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: go back to the pen when it's dark. Yes, that
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: will be time enough for Of course, Squinty did not
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: think of staying out after the sun had gone down,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: or at least he did not imagine he would. But
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you just wait and see what happens. Squinty looked carefully
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: about him. Even if one eye did droop a little,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: he could still see out of it very well, and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: he saw no signs of Dawn the big dog, nor
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: could Squinty hear him. Dawn must be far away, the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: little pig thought, far away, perhaps taking a swim in
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the brook where the dog often went to cool off
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: in hot weather. I think I'll go and have a
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: swim myself, thought Squinty. He knew there was a brook
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: somewhere on the farm, for he could hear the tinkle
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and fall of the water even in the pig pen.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: But where the brook was he did not know exactly.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: But it will be an adventure to hunt for it,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Squinty thought, I guess I can easily find it here
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I go, and with that he started to walk between
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the rows of potatoes. Squinty made up his little mind
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that he was going to be very careful now that
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: he was safely out of the pen again. He did
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: not want to be caught the second time. He did
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: not want Dawn or the farmer to see him, so
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: he crawled along, keeping as much out of sight as
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: he could. I wish my brothers, wolf Wolf or Squealer
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: were with me, said Squinty softly to himself in pig language.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: But if I had awakened them and asked them to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: run away with me, Mamma or Papa might have heard
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and stopped us. Squinty did not feel at all sorry
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: about running away and leaving his father and mother and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. You see, he thought he would be
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: back with them again in a few hours, for he
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: did not intend to stay away from the pen longer
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: than that. But many things can happen in a few hours,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: as you shall see. I won't eat any pigweed just yet,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: thought Squinty, as he went softly on between the rows
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of potato vines. To pull up any of it and
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: eat it now would make it wiggle, then don or
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the farmer might see it wiggling and run over to
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: find out what it was all about. Then I'd be caught.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I'll wait a bit. So, though he was very hungry,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: he would not eat a bit of the pigweed that
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: grew near the pen. And he never so much as
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: dream of taking any of the farmer's potatoes. He did
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: not yet know the taste of them. But let me
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: tell you, pigs who have eaten potatoes, even the little
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: ones the farmer cannot sell, are very fond of them.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: But so far Squinty had never eaten even a little potato.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: On and on went the little pig, looking back now
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and then toward the pen to see if any of
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the other pigs were coming after him. But none were,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and there was no sign of dawn. The barking dog,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: nor the farmer either. There was nothing to stop Squinty
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: from running away. Soon he was some distance from the pen,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and then he thought it would be safe to nibble
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: at a bit of pigweed. He took a large mouthful
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: from a tall green plant. Oh how good that tastes,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: thought Squinty. It's much better and fresher than that kind
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of farmer throws into the pen to us. Perhaps this
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: was true, but I imagine the reason the pig weed
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: tasted so much better was because Squinty was running away.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Perhaps you know how it is yourself. Did you ever
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: go out the back way when Mamma was washing the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: dishes and run over to your aunts or your grandma's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: house and get a piece of bread and jam? If
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you ever did, you probably thought that bread and jam
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: was much nicer than the kind you could get it home.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Though really there isn't any better bread and jam than
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: mother makes. But somehow or other, the kind you get
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: away from home tastes differently, doesn't it. It was that
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: way with Squinty, the comical pig. He ate and ate
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the pig weed until he had eaten about as much
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: as was good for him, and Then, as he saw
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: one little potato on the ground where it had rolled
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: out of the hill in which it grew with the others,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Squinty ate that he did not think the farmer would care.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Oh how good it is, he thought. I wish I'd
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: not eaten so much pig weed. Then I could eat
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: more of those funny round things the farmer calls potatoes.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Now I will have to wait until i'm hungry again.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Squinty knew that would not be very long, for pigs
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: get hungry many times a day. That is what makes
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: them grow fat so fast. They eat so often. But
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: eating often is not good for boys and girls. Squinty
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: had now come some distance away from the pen where
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: he lived with his mother, father, sisters, and brothers. He
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: wondered if they had awakened yet, or had seen the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: hole out of which he had crawled, and if they
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: were puzzled as to where he had gone. But they
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: can't find me, said Squinty, with something that sounded like
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a laugh. I suppose pigs can laugh in their own
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: way at any rate. No, they can't find me, thought Squinty.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Looking all around, all he saw were the rows of
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: potato vines and farther off a field of tall green corn. Well,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I have the whole day to myself, thought Squinty, and
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I can do as I please and not go back
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: until night. Let me see what shall I do first?
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I guess I'll go to sleep in the shade. So
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: he stretched out in the shade of a big potato vine,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and curling up in a little pink ball, he closed
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: his eyes, the squinty one as well as the good one.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: But first Squinty looked all around to make sure Dawn
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the dog was not in sight. He saw nothing of him.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: When Squinty awakened, he felt hungry, as he always did
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: after a sleep. Now for some more of those nice potatoes,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: he said to himself. He liked them right after his
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: first taste. He did not look around for the little
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: ones that might have fallen out of the hills themselves. No, Instead,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Squinty began rooting them out of the earth with his strong,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: rubbery nose made just for digging. I'm not saying Squinty
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: did right in this. In fact, he did wrong. But
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: then he was a little pig and he knew no better.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: In fact, it was the first time he had really
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: run away, so far, and he was quite hungry, and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: potatoes were better than pig weed. Squinty ate as many
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: potatoes as he wanted, and then he said to himself,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: in a way pigs have well, I guess I'll go
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: on to the brook and cool off in the water.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: That will do me good. After that, I'll look around
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: and see what will happen next. Squinty had a good
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: nose for smelling, as most animals have, and tilting it
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: up in the air, Squinty sniffed and snuffled. He wanted
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to smell the water so as to take the shortest
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: path to the brook. Ah it's right over there, exclaimed
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Squinty to himself, I can easily find the water to
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: take a bath. Across the potato field he went, taking
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: care to keep well down between the rows of green vines,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: for he did not want to be seen by the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: dog or the farmer. Once, as Squinty was walking along,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: he saw what he thought was another potato on the
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: ground in front of him. He put his nose out
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: toward it, intending to eat it. But the thing gave
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: a big jump and hopped out of the way. Ah,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: that must be one of the hop toads I heard
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: my mother tell about, thought Squinty. I must not hurt them,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: for they are good to catch the flies that tickle
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: me when I try to sleep. Hop On, he said
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: to the toad, I won't bother you. The toad did
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: not stop to say anything. She just hopped on and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: hid under a big stone. Maybe she was afraid of Squinty,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: but he would not have hurt her. Soon the little
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: pig came to the brook of cool water, and after
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: looking about to see that there was no danger near,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Squinty waded in and took a long drink. Then he
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: rolled over and over again in it, washing off all
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the mud and dirt, and coming out as clean and
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: as pink as a little baby. Squinty was a real
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: nice pig, even if he had run away. Let me see,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: he said to himself after his bath. What shall I do? Now?
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Which way shall I go?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: He happened to be hungry after his swim. In fact,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Squinty was very often hungry, so he thought he would
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: see if he could find anything more to eat. I
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: have had potatoes and pig weed, he thought, and now
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I would like some apples. I wonder if there are
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: any apple trees around here. He looked, and across the
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: field of corn he thought he saw an apple tree.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: He made up his mind to go there, and that
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: is where Squinty made another mistake. He made one when
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: he ran away from the pen, and another one when
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: he started to go through the cornfield. Corn you know,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: grows quite high, and pigs, even the largest of them,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: are not very tall, at least not until they stand
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: on their hind legs. That was a trick Squinty had
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: not yet learned, so he had to go along on
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: four legs, and this made him low down. Now he'd
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: been able to look over the tops of the potato vines,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: as they were not very high, but Squinty could not
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: look over the top of the corn stalks. No sooner
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: had he gotten into the field and started to walk
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: along the corn rows, than he could not see where
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: he was going. He could not even see the apple
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: tree in the middle of the field. Well this is queer,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: thought Squinty. I guess i'd better go back. No, I
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: will keep on. I may come to the apple tree soon.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: He hurried on between the corn rows, But though he
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: went a long distance, he did not come to the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: apple tree. I guess I will go back to the
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: brook where I had my bath and start over again
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: from there, thought Squinty. I'll not try to get any
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: apples to day. I'll eat only potatoes and pigweed. Yes,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I will go back. But that was not so easy
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: to do, as he had thought. Squinty this way and
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: that through the rows of corn, but he could not
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: find the brook. He could not find his way back,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: nor could he find the apple tree. On all sides
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: of him was the tall corn. That was all poor
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Squinty could see. Finally, all tired out and dusty, the
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: little pig stopped and sighed, Oh, dear, I guess I'm lost.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: End of chapter three. Recording by Jidopy www dot public Domain,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: audiobooks dot blogspot dot com. Chapter four of Squinty the
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Comical Pig. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. Recording by JADOPI. Squinty the
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Comical Pig by Richard Barnum. Squinty gets home. The rows
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: of corn in the field where Squinty the Comical Pig
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: was lost were like the streets of a city. They
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: were very straight, and even just like the street where
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: your house is, And if you liked, you could pretend
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: that each hill of corn was a house. Perhaps Squinty
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: pretended this, if pigs ever do pretend At any rate,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: the little lost pig wandered up and down in the
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: rows of corn, peering this way and that to see
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: which way to go so he could get home again.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: He began to think that running away was not so
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: much fun as he had at first thought. Oh dear,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Squinty grunted in his funny squealing voice, I wonder if
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I'll ever see my Mamma and Papa again. Squinty ran
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: this way and that, up and down the rows of corn,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: and you can easily imagine what happened. He soon became
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: very tired. I think I will take a rest, thought,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Squinty talking to himself, because there was no one else
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: to whom he could speak. I think the little pig
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: would have been very glad just then to speak, even
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: to Dawn the dog. But Dawn was not there. Squinty
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: wondering what happened to little pigs when they were lost,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: and if they ever got home again, stretched out on
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the dirt between two rows of corn. It was shady there,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: but overhead, the hot sun was shining. Squinty's breath came
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: very fast, just as when a dog runs far on
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a warm day. But the earth was rather cool, and
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Squinty liked it. He would much rather have been down
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: by the cool brook, but he knew he could not
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: have a swim in it until he found it, and
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: just now he seemed a good way off from it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Poor Squinty. It was bad enough to be tired and warm,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: but to be lost was worse, and to be hungry
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: was worse than all, especially to a little pig. And
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: more than this, there was nothing to eat. Squinty had
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: tried to nibble at some of the green corn stalks,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: but he did not like the taste of them. Perhaps
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: he'd not yet learned to like them. For I have
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: seen older pigs eat cornstalks, and pigs are very fond
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: of the yellow corn itself. They love to gnaw it
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: off the cob and chew it, just as you chew popcorn.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: But the corn was not yet ripe, and Squinty was
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: too little to have eaten it if it had been ripe.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Later on he would learn to do this. Just now,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: he cared more about finding his way home, and also
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: finding something that he could eat. For some time, the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: little lost pig rested on the cool earth in the
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: shade of the rows of corn. Then he got up
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: with a grunt and a squeal, and began rooting in
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: the ground. Perhaps I may find some potatoes or some
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: pig weed here, thought Squinty, who knows. But all he
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: could root up with his queer rubbery nose was some
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: round stones. Some of these were brown and look so
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: much like the little potatoes that Squinty tried to chew one.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: But when he felt the hard stone on his little
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: white teeth, he cried out in pain. Ouch, squealed Squinty,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: that hurt. Those are funny potatoes. I never knew they
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: could be so hard. Later on he learned that what
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: he supposed were potatoes were only stones. You see, it
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: takes a little pig some time to learn all the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: things he needs to know. Squinty let the stone roll
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: out of his mouth, and he looked at it with
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: such an odd look on his face, peering at it
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: with his squinty eye and with one ear cocked up
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: sort of sideways, that if you had seen him, you
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: could have not help laughing. No one could if they
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: had seen Squinty then, but there was no one in
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: the field to watch him. Well, thought Squinty after a bit.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: This will never do. I can't stay here. I must
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: try to find my way back home. Let me see
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: what I better do. I guess the first thing is
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: to find that field of real potatoes and not the
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: make believe ones like this, And he pushed the stone
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: away with his nose. When I find the potato field,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: he went on, still talking to himself. I'm sure I
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: can find the brook or I had a swim. And
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: when I find the brook, I will know my way home,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: for there's a straight path from there to our pen.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: So Squinty started off once more to walk through the
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: rows of corn. As he walked along on his little
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: short legs, he grunted and rooted in the earth with
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: his nose. Sometimes he stumbled over a big stone or
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: a clot of dirt and fell down. Oh dear, exclaimed
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: poor Squinty when he got up after falling down about
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: six times. Oh dear, this is no fun. I wish
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I had stayed in the pen with my brothers and sisters.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I wonder what they are doing now. Just then Squinty
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: felt more hungry than ever, and he thought it must
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: be feeding time back in the pen. Oh, they must
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: be having some nice sour milk. Just now, thought Squinty,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: How I wish I were back with them. And then,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: as he fancied he could smell the nice sour milk
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: which the farmer or his wife was pouring into the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: eating trough of the pen, Squinty just howled and squealed
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: with hunger. Oh what a noise he made. Then this
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: gave him an idea. Huh, he exclaimed to himself, in
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: a way pigs have. Why didn't I think of that before.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I'm a squeal for help. My mamma or papa may
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: hear me and come for me. Then Squinty happened to
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: think that the hole by which he had gotten out
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: of the pen was not large enough for his fat
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: papa or mama to crawl through. No, they can't get
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: out to come for me. Squinty thought, they'll have to
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: send woof, woof or squealer, and maybe they'll get lost
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: the same as I did. Oh, dear, I guess I
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: won't squeal anymore. It's bad enough for me to be
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: lost without any of my brothers or sisters getting lost too.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: So Squinty stopped squealing and walked on and on between
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: the rows of corn, trying to find his way home
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: to the pen all by himself. Squinty was really quite
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: a brave pig, wasn't he. By this time, as you
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: can well believe, mister and missus Pig in the pen
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: had awakened from their afternoon nap, and all the little
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: pigs had awakened too, for they were beginning to feel
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: hungry again. Isn't it about time the farmer came with
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: some sour milk for us, asked mister Pig of missus pig.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I think it is, she said, looking up at the sun,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: For the sun is the only clock that pigs and
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: other animals have. When they see the sun in the
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: east low down, they know it is morning. When it
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: shines directly over their heads high in the sky, they
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: know it's noon. And when the sun sinks down in
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: the west, the pigs know it's getting toward night and
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: supper time. The sun was low down in the west now,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: and mister and missus Pig knew it must be nearly
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: time for their evening meal. Come wulf Wolf come, Squealer, Come,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Squinty and all the rest of you, called missus Pig
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: in her grunting voice, come get your supper. I think
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I hear the farmer coming with a nice sour milk.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Whee whee, whee, squealed all the little pigs, for they
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: were very hungry. Indeed, whee swee whee. They all made
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: a rush to see who would get to the eating
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: trough first. Some of them even put their feet in
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: they were so anxious. Pigs are always that way. They
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: know no better, so we must excuse them. If they
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: had been taught not to do that and then did it,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: we would not excuse them. Here comes the farmer with
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: the sour milk, grunted mister pig, Oh, how good it smells.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Just then Squealer cried, why where's Squinty? His brothers and
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: sisters looked around. Squinty, the comical pig, was not to
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: be seen. But we know where he was, even if
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: his mamma and papa and brothers and sisters did not.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Squinty was in the cornfield trying to find his way
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: back to the pen. Where can Squinty be? Asked, missus Pig,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Squinty Squinty, she called, grunting and squealing, as she always did,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: come to the trough. She went on, supper is ready,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: but Squinty did not come. The farmer poured the sour
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: milk down the slide, where it ran into the trough,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: and the little pigs began to eat. But mister and
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Missus Pig began looking for Squinty. They the straw, thinking
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: he might be asleep under it. No Squinty was to
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: be seen. Then mister Pig saw the hole under the
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: sideboards of the pen. Huh, exclaimed mister Pig, speaking to
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Missus Pig. I think perhaps Squinty went out there. Oh
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: so he did, said missus Pig. What shall we do?
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Just then the farmer looked over in the pen to
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: see how fat the pigs were getting. He counted the
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: little pigs. Then a queer look came over his face. Hello,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: he exclaimed, only six. Here one of those pigs has
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: gotten out. I must look into this Quickly. He glanced
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: all about the pen. He saw the hole out of
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: which Squinty had run away. I've thought so, exclaimed the farmer.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: One of the pigs has rooted his way out. I'll
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: have to go after him. Here Don, He called to
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: his dog, A pig is loose, We must catch him,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: and he whistled for the big black and white dog,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: who ran up, barking and leaping about. At first, Squinty's
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters were paying so much attention to drinking
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: their sour milk that they did not notice what the
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: farmer said, even though they missed Squinty at the trough.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: But when they heard the dog barking, they wondered what
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: had happened. Then they saw their mamma and Papa looking
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: anxious and talking together in their grunting language, and wulf
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Wuff asked, has anything happened? Squinty is lost, said missus Pig,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: rubbing her nose up against that of curly Tail, the
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: littlest girl pig of them all. He must have run
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: out of the pen when we were asleep. Oh dear,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: cried all the little pigs, and they felt very badly.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Never mind, said mister Pig. I heard the farmer called
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: on the dog to go off and find Squinty. I
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: think he'll bring him back. Oh, but maybe Don will
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: bite Squinty, said wulf Wulf. I guess not, answered mister
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: pig is a gentle dog. But anyhow, we want Squinty back,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: and the only way we can get him is to
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: have the farmer and his dog go after him. The
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: other little pigs finished their supper of sour milk with
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: some small potatoes which the farmer's wife threw into them.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Mister and missus pig ate a little, and then the farmer,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: after stopping up the hole where Squinty got out so
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: no more of the pigs could run away, started off
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: over the fields, calling to his dog, Bow Bow Bow,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: barked Dawn. That meant in dog language, I'll find Squinty
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: and bring him back. Meanwhile, Squinty had tried his best
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: to find a way out of the cornfield, but all
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: he did was to walk up one row and down another.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: If he had been tall enough to stand up and
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: look over the tops of the corn stalks, he might
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: have seen which way to go, but he was not
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: yet large enough for that. Pretty soon Squinty looked up
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and he saw that the sun was not as bright
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: as it had been. Squinty knew what this meant. The
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: sun was going down and it would soon be night.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Oh dear, I wonder if I shall have to stay
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: out all alone in the dark night, thought poor Squinty. Oh,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I'll never run away again, never. Just then he heard
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: off through the rows of corn a dog barking. Bow
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: bow wow, bow, went the dog. Oh what shall I do?
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Where shall I hide? Thought Squinty. A bad dog is
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: after me. He ran this way and that, stumbling and
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: falling down. The barking of the dog sounded nearer. Then
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Squinty heard a man's voice saying, get after him, down,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: find him find that peg bow was the barking answer. Ah,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: thought Squinty, Dawn, that's the name of the good dog
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: on our farm. I wonder if he's coming after me.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Just then the farmer, who had been following the tracks
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: left in the soft ground by squad his feet, came
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: to the cornfield. The farmer saw where the pig had
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: been walking between the green rows of corn. He's ear somewhere, Don,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the farmer said, find him bowow, barked Dawn. I will.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Just then Squinty stumbled over a big stone, and he
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: could not help grunting. He also gave a little squeal.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Here he is, Don, called the farmer. Take him by
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: the ear and lead him back to the pen easy now,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Squinty stood still. He did not want to run away
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: from Dawn. Squinty was only too anxious to be found
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: and taken home. The next minute, through the rows of
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: corn came bounding Don the dog. He was followed by
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: the farmer. Ah there he is, the little runaway, cried
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: the farmer man as he saw the pig after him Dawn,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: But don't hurt him. Don raced up beside Squinty and
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: took him gently by the ear. Bow barked the dog,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and that meant, come along with me, if you please.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: You've been away from your pen quite long enough. Squinty
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: gave a loud squeal when Don took him by the ear,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: But when the little pig found that the dog did
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: not mean to hurt him, he grew quiet and went
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: along willingly. Enough, I must make that pig pen a
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: great deal tighter if they're going to get out and
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: run away every day, said the farmer to himself as
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: he walked along behind Don and Squinty. Soon they were
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: at the pig pen, and oh how glad Squinty was
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: to see it again. The farmer picked the little pink fellow,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: now all tired out, and covered with dirt up in
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: his arms, and dropped him down inside the pen with
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the other pigs. There, cried the farmer, I guess you'll
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: stay in after this, bow barked Don, jumping about, for
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: he thought it was fun to chase runaway pigs. And
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: so Squinty got safely back home, but very soon he
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: was to have some more adventures. End of chapter four
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: by Jadopi www dot public Domain, audiobooks dot blogspot dot com.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Chapter five of Squinty the Comical Pig. This is a
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Recording by Jidopi. Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Squinty and the Boy. Did you ever have a little
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: brother or sister who ran away from home and was
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: very glad to run back or be brought back again
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: by a policeman? Perhaps, of course, your little brother or
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: sister may not have intended to run away. It may
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: have been that they had only wandered off around the
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: corner toward the candy store and could not find their
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: way back again. But when he or she did get home,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: how glad you were to see them. Weren't you. It
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: was just like that at the pen where Squinty the
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: comical pig lived, When the farmer picked him up and
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: dropped him down among his brothers and sisters in the
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: clean straw, Wolf, Wolf Squealer and Curly Tail and the
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: others were so glad to see Squinty that they grunted
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: and squealed and walked all over one another to be
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: the first to get close to him. Oh, Squinty, where
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: were you? Where did you go? What did you do?
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Weren't you uffuy scared? Where did the dog find you?
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Did he bite you very hard? These were some of
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: the questions Squinty's brothers and sisters asked of the little
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: runaway pig. They pressed close up to him, rubbing their funny, wiggling,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: rubber like noses against him, and snuggling up against him,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: for they liked Squinty very much. Indeed, then after the
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: young pigs had had their turn, Mister Pig and Missus
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Pig began asking questionquestions. What made you run away? Asked
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Squinty's papa. Oh, I wanted to have an adventure, said Squinty.
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  Speaker 1: Well did you have one? Asked his mamma. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: lots of them, answered the little pig, but I didn't
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: find very much to eat. Squinty was very hungry. Now,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: oh dear, exclaimed missus pig, you are just too late
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: for supper. It's all eaten up. We did not see
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: that you were not here until too late. It's too bad,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Squinty thought so himself, for the smell of the sour
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: milk that had been in the feeding trough made him
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: more hungry than ever. Squinty walked over and tried to
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: find a few drops in the bottom of the wooden trough.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: These he licked up with his red tongue, but there
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: was not nearly enough. Ha. I guess that little pig
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: must be hungry, said the farmer, looking down in the pen,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: after he had put some more stones and a board
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: over the hole where Squinty had gotten out. I guess
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: I'll have to feed him, for the others have had
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: their supper. And how glad Squinty was when the farmer
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: went over to the barrel where the pigs feed was
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: kept and mixed a nice pail full of sour milk
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: with some corn meal and poured it into the trough.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Squeek squeek, cried Squinty as he made a rush over
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: to get his supper. Squee squeeze, cried all the other
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: little pigs as they too made a rush to get
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: more to eat. Here, Hold on, come back, cried mister pig.
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  Speaker 1: That is Squinty's supper. You must not touch it. You
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: have had yours. And he and Missus Pig would not
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: let Squinty's brothers and sisters shove him away from the trough.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: For sometimes pigs are so hungry that they do this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Being pigs, they know no better. So Squinty
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  Speaker 1: had his supper after all, though he did run away.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Perhaps he should have been punished by being sent to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: bed without having had anything to eat. But you see,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: the farmer wanted his pigs to be fat and healthy,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: so he fed them. Well. Squinty was very glad of that.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Now all of you go to sleep, said missus Pig.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: When it grew darker and darker in the pen, so
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: she made them all cuddle down in the straw, pulling
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: it over them with her nose and paws like a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: blanket to keep them warm. For only part of the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: pen had a roof over it, and though it was summer,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: still it was cool at night. But Squinty's brothers and
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: sisters had no notion of going to sleep so soon
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: they wanted to hear all about what had happened to
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: him when he had run away, and they wanted him
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: to tell them of his adventures. So they grunted and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: whispered among themselves. What happened to you, Squinty, asked wulf Wulf.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: Oh I had a fine swim in a brook, said Squinty.
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  Speaker 1: I wish that had happened to me, said wulf Wulf.
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  Speaker 1: What else? I found a nice field of corn, went
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: on Squinty, but I did not like the taste of it.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I got lost in the cornfield. That's too bad, said
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: wulf Wuff. Did anything else happen? Yes? I found some
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: ping weed and ate that, and some little potatoes. Oh
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: how nice, exclaimed twistytail. I wish that had happened to me.
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  Speaker 1: Did you do anything else, Squinty, Yes, said the comical
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  Speaker 1: little pig. I saw something I thought was a potato,
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  Speaker 1: and it jumped away from me. It was a hoptoad.
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  Speaker 1: That was funny, said Squealer. I wish i'd seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Did anything else happen? Yes, said Squinty, I thought I
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: saw another potato, but when I bit on it, I
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  Speaker 1: found it was a stone, and it hurt my teeth.
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  Speaker 1: That's too bad, said Wulffuff. I'm glad that did not
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: happen to me. Tell us what else you saw. But
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: just then missus Pig grunted out. Come now, all you
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: little pigs, keep quiet and go to sleep. Go to
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  Speaker 1: sleep at once. So Squinty and the others cuddled closer together,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: snuggled down in the soft straw, and soon were fast asleep.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Now and then they stirred or grunted during the night,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: but they did not wake up until morning. They were
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: running around the pen before breakfast, squealing as loudly as
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  Speaker 1: they could for the farmer to come and feed them.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: But the farmer had his cows and horses and chickens
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: to feed as well as the pigs, and he did
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  Speaker 1: not get to the pen until last. And when he did,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: all the pigs were so hungry, even mister and missus Pig,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: that they were squealing as hard as they could. Yes, yes,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: cried the farmer, as though he were talking to the pigs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming as fast as I can soon, the farmer
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  Speaker 1: poured some sour milk and corn meal down into the trough,
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  Speaker 1: and how eagerly Squinty and the others did eat it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the smaller pigs even put two feet in
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  Speaker 1: the trough they were so anxious to get their share.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Squinty had an especially good appetite from having run away,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: so perhaps he got a little more than the others.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: But finally the breakfast was all gone, and the pigs
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: had nothing more to do until dinner time. That is,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: all they had to do was to lie down and rest,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: or get up now, and then to scratch a mosquito
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: or a fly bite. Well, I guess none of you
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: will get out again, said the farmer after a while,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: as he nailed the bigger board over the hole by
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: which Squinty had gotten out.
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  Speaker 2: Down.
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  Speaker 1: Wash these pigs, the farmer went on. If they get out,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: grab em by the ear and bring em back. Bow
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: barked Dawn, and that meant he would do as his
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: master had told him. For several days after this, nothing
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: happened in the pigs pen, except that they were washed
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: off with the hose now and then to clean them
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: of mud and make them cool. Once in a while,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: the farmer would take a corn cob and scratch the
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: back of mister and missus pig, and they liked it
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  Speaker 1: very much. The other pigs were almost too little for
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: the farmer to reach over the top of the pen.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: One day, the pigs heard merry shouts and laughter up
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: at the farmhouse. There were the sounds of boys and
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: girls voices. Then came the patter of many feet. Oh,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: look at the pigs, someone cried, and Squinty and his
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, looking up, saw over the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the pen some boys and girls looking down on them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh aren't they cute? Exclaimed a girl. Just lovely, said
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  Speaker 1: another girl. Pigs are so nice. I wonder if any
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: of them can do any tricks, asked a boy who
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: stood looking down into the pen. These aren't trained circus pigs,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: spoke one of the girls. They can't do tricks. The
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: boy and the girls stayed for a little while watching
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: the pigs. Then the boy said, let's pull some weeds
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: and feed them. Oh, yes, let's cried the girls. The
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: pigs were glad when they heard this, and they were
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: more glad when the boys and the girls threw pigweed
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: and other green things from the garden into the pen.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: The pigs ate them all up and wanted more. After that,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: for several days, Squinty and his brothers and sisters could
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: hear the boy and the girls running about the garden,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: but they could not see them because the boards around
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: the pig pen were too high. The boy and the
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: girls seemed to be having a fine time. Squinty could
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: hear them talking about hunting the hens eggs, and feeding
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: the little calves and sheep, and riding on the backs
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: of horses. Then one day, Squinty looked up out of
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: the pen, and leaning over the top board, he saw
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: the farmer, the boy, and another man. Oh, father, exclaimed
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: the boy. Do let me have just one little pig.
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  Speaker 1: They're so nice a pig, cried father. What would you
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: do with a pig in our town. We're not in
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: the country. Where would you keep a pig? Oh, I
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: could build a little pen for him in our yard. Look,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: let me have that one. He's so pink and pretty
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: and clean. Hah. So you want that pig, do you?
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Asked the farmer. The boy and his father and sisters
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: were paying a visit to the farm. Yes, I want
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: a pig very much. The boy said, and I think
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: I'd like that one, and he pointed straight at Squinty.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: for he knew the boy was talking about him. Oh
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: see him, run, cried the boy. Yes, I think he's
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: the nicest pig in the lot. I want him. Has
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: he any name? Well, we call him Squinty. The farmer said,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: he has a funny squinting eye. Then I'll call him
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: squinty too. The boy went on, please, father, may I
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: have that little pig? Well, I don't know, said his father,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: slowly scratching his head. A pig is a queer pet.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: I suppose you might have him, though you could keep
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: him in the back yard. Yes, I guess you could
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: have him if mister Jones will sell him, and if
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: the pig will behave Do you think that little pig
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: will be good? Mister Jones, asked the father of the farmer.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, I guess, so, answered the farmer. He has
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: run away out of the pen a couple of times.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: But if you board up a place good and tight,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: I guess he won't get out. Oh I do hope
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: he'll be good, exclaimed the boy. I do so want
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: a little pet pig, and I'll be so kind to him.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: When Squinty heard that, he made up his mind if
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: the boy took him that he would be as good
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: as he knew. How when can I have my little pig,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: asked the boy of his father. Oh as soon as
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: mister Jones can put him in a box so we
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: can carry him, was the answer. We can't very well
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: take him in our arms. He would slip out and
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: run away. I guess so too, laughed the boy and
• 1:09:00
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  Speaker 2: Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum, Chapter six, Squinty
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  Speaker 2: on a journey. Mamma, did you hear what they were
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: saying about? Squinty asked Wuffluff, as the boy and the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: two men walked away from the pigpen. Oh yes, I heard,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: said missus Pig. I shall be sorry to lose Squinty,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: But then we pigs have to go out and take
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: our places in this world. We cannot always stay home
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: in the pen. Yes, that is so, spoke mister Pig.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: But Squinty is rather young and small to start out. However,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: it may all be for the best. Now, Squinty, you
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: had better keep yourself nice and clean so as to
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: be ready to go on a journey. What's a journey,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: asked the comical little pig, squinting his eye up at
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: the pop a pig. A journey is going away from home,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: answered mister pig. And does it mean having adventures, asked Squinty,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: flopping his ears backward and forward. Yes, you may have
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: some adventures, replied his mother. Oh, dear Squinty, I wish
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: you didn't have to go and leave us. But still
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: it may be all for your good. We might hide
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: him under the straw, suggested Wulfluff. Then that boy could
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: not find him when he comes to put him in
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: a box and take him away. No, that would never do,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: said mister pig. The farmer is stronger and smarter than
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: we are. He would find Squinty no matter where we
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: hit him. It is better to let him do as
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: he pleases and take Squinty away, we shall all miss him.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, cried Curly Tail, for she liked her little
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: brother very much, and she loved to see him look
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: at her with his funny, squinting eye. Do you want
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: to go, Squinty? Well, I don't want to leave you all,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: answered the comical little pig. But I shall be glad
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: to go on a journey, have adventures. I hope I
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: don't get lost again, though I guess the boy won't
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: let you get lost, spoke mister Pig. He looks as
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: though he would be kind and good to you. The
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: pig family did not know when Squinty would be taken
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: away from them, and all they could do was wait.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Well they were doing this, they ate and slept, as
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: they always did. Squinty several times looked at the hole
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: under the pen by which he had once gotten out.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: He felt sure he could push his way through and
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: run away, but he did not. No, I will wait
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: and let the boy take me away, thought Squinty. Several
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: times after this, the boy and his sisters came down
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: to look into the pig pen. The pigs could tell
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: by the talk of the children that they were brothers
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: and sisters. And they had come to the farm to
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: spend their summer vacation, and there was no school. That's
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: the pig I am going to take home with me,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: the boy would say, to his sister's pointing to Squinty,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: how can you tell which one is yours, asked one
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: of the little girls. I can tell by his funny
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: squint The boy would answer, he always makes me want
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: to laugh. Well, I am glad, I am some use
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: in this world, thought Squinty, who could understand nearly all
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: that the boy and his sister said. It is something
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: just to be jolly. I wouldn't want a pig, said
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: the other girl. They grunt and squeal and are not clean.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: I'd rather have a rabbit. Pigs are so clean, cried
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: the boy. Squinty is as clean as a rabbit. Only
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: that day Squinty had rolled over in the mud, but
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: he had had a bath from the hose, so he
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: was clean now. And he made up his mind that
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: if the boy took him, he would never again get
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: in the mud and become covered with dirt. I will
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: keep myself clean and jolly, thought Squinty. A few days
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: after this, Squinty heard the noise of hammering and sawing
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: wood from outside the pig pen. The farmer must be
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: building another barn, said mister pig, for he and his
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: family could not see outside the pen. Yes, he must
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: be building another barn, for once before we heard the
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: sounds of hammering and sawing, and then a new barn
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: was built. But that was not what it was this time.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: Soon the sound stopped, and the farmer and the boy
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: came and looked down to the pig pen. Now you
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: are sure you want that squinty one, the farmer asked
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: the boy. Some of the others are bigger and better. No,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: I want the squinty one, the boy said. He is
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: so comical he makes me laugh. All right, answered the farmer,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: I'll get him for you, now that you have the
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: crate all made to carry him home in on the cars.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: Over into the pig pen, japped the farmer. He made
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: a grab for Squinty and caught him. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: squealed Squinty, for he had never been squeezed so tightly before. Oh,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to hurt you, said the farmer kindly.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: Squinty be quiet, ordered his papa. In the pig language.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: Behave yourself. You are going on a journey and will
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: be all right. Then Squinty stopped squealing, and the farmer
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: climbed out of the pen with him. At last, I
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: am going on a journey, and I may have many adventures,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: thought the little pig. Good Bye, he called his papa
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: and mamma, and brothers and sisters left behind in the pen.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Good bye, good bye. The old grunted and squealed. Be
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: a good pig, said his mamma. Be a brave pig,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: said his papa. And and come back and see us sometime,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: sniffled little curly tail, for she loved Squinty very much. Indeed,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: I'll come back, said the comical little pig, But he
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: did not know how much was to happen before he
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: saw his pen again. There you go into the box
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: with you, cried the farmer as she dropped Squinty into
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: a wooden box that the boy had made for his
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: pet with a hammer, saw and nails. Squinty found himself
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: dropped on a bed of clean straw. In front of him,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: Behind him, and on either side of him were wooden
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: slats the side of the box. Squinchy could look out,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: but the slats were as close together as those in
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: a chicken coop, and the little pig not get out.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: He did not want to, however, for he had made
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: up his mind that he was going to be a
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: good pig and go with the boy who had bought
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: him for a pet from the farmer. Over the top
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  Speaker 2: of the box was nailed a cover with a handle
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  Speaker 2: to it, and by this handle the pig in the
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: little cage could easily be carried. There you are, exclaimed
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: the farmer. Now he'll be all right until you get home.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: And when I do, I'll put him in a nice
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: big pen and feed him well, said the boy. Squinty
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: smacked his lips at that, for he was hungry even now.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: Oh have you caged him up? Isn't he cute? Exclaimed
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  Speaker 2: one of the boy's sisters. I'll give him the core
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: of my apple, and she thrust it in through the
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: slats of the box. Squinty was very glad indeed to
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: get the apple cort, and he soon made it up.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: Come on, cried the boy's father. Is the pig nailed up?
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: We must go for the train. I wonder what the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: train is, thought Squinty. He was soon to know. The
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: boy lifted him up, cage and all, and put him
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: into the wagon that was to go to the depot.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: Squinty knew what a wagon was and horses, for he
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: had seen them many times. Then away they started. Squinchy
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: gave a loud squeal which was his last good bye
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: to the other pigs in the pen, and then the
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: wagon rattled away along the road Squinty had started on
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: his journey. End of chapter six.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of Squinty the Comical Pig. This is a
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: Recording by Jadafi Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: Squinty learns a trick. Squinty the Comical Pig tried to
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: look out through the slats of the box in which
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: he was being taken away to see in which direction
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: he was going. He also wanted to watch the different
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: sights along the road, but the sides of the farm
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: wagon were so high that the little pig could see nothing.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: He stretched his fat neck as far as it would go,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: but that did no good either. Squinty wished he were
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: as big as his mamma or his Papa. Then I
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: could see what's going on, he thought. But just wishing
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: never made any one larger or taller, not even a pig,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: and Squinty stayed the same size. He could hear the
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: farmer and the children talking. Now and then the boy
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: who had bought Squinty and who was taking him home
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Is he all right, one of the girls would ask.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: He seems to be. The boy would say, I'm glad
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: I got him. Well, he acts real cute, said another girl,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: who was called Sallie. But I never heard of having
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: a pig for a pet before. You Just wait until
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: I teach him some tricks, said the boy, whose name
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: was Bob. Then you'll think he's fine. Huh, So I'm
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: to learn tricks, thought Squinty in his box. I wonder
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: what tricks are Anyhow Does it mean I'm going to
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: have good things to eat? I hope?
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: You see, Squinty, like most little pigs, thought more of
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: something to eat than of anything else. But we must
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: not blame him for that, since he couldn't help it.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: Pretty soon the wagon rattled over some stones and then
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: came to a stop. Here we are called the children's father.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: Bring along your little pig, Bob. Here comes the train. Huh,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: it seems I am to go on a train, thought Squinty.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: I wonder what a train is. Squinty had many things
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: to learn, didn't he. The little pig in the box
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: felt himself being lifted out of the wagon. Then he
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: could look about him. He saw a large building in
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: front of which were long, slender strips of shining steel.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: These were the railroad tracks, but Squinty did not know that.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: Then all at once Squinty heard a loud noise which
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: went like this.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: Whee wheeeeee.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Oh my, what a loud squeal that pig has, exclaimed Squinty.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: He can squeal so much louder than I can, I think.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: Let me try so. Squinty went squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, And
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: then the big noise sounded again, louder than before. Who
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: oh my, said Squinty to himself, snuggling down in the
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: straw of his box. I never can squeal as loud
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: as that. Never. He looked out and saw a big
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: black thing rushing toward him, with smoke coming out of
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: the top. And then the big black thing cried out again.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: Why why doo uh oh, what a terrible big black pig,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: thought Squinty, and he was a bit frightened. But it
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: was not a big black pig at all. It was
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: only the engine drawing the train of cars up to
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: the station to take the passengers away, and it was
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: going to take Squinty also. Squinty thought the engine whistle
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: was a pig squeal, but it wasn't, of course. Pretty
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: soon the train stopped, the passengers made a rush to
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: get in the cars. Bob the boy caught up the
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: handle of Squinty's box, and after some bumping and tilting sideways,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: the little pig found himself set down in a rather
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: dark place, for the boy had put the box on
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: the floor of the car by his seat, near his feet,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: And there Squinty rode, seeing nothing but hearing many strange noises,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: until after many stops, he was lifted up again. Here
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: we are, the little pig heard the children's papa saying,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: have you everything? Don't forget your pig, Bob, I won't,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: answered the boy with a jolly laugh. Well I wonder
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: what will happen next, thought Squinty, as he felt himself
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: being carried along again, he could see nothing but a
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: crowd of persons all about the boy who carried the box.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether I'm going to like this or not,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: this coming to live in town, thought the little pig.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: Still I cannot help myself, I suppose, but I do
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: wish I had something to eat. I guess the boy
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: must have known Squinty was hungry, for when he set
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: down the box, this time in a carriage, the boy
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: gave the little pig a whole apple to eat. And
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: how good it did taste a Squinty, Are you going
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: to make a pen for him, asked one of the
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: boy's sisters, as the carriage drove off. Yes, as soon
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: as we get to the house, said the boy. By
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: this time Squinty was thirsty. There was no water in
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: his cage. But a little later, when he saw through
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: the slats that he was being carried toward a large
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: white house, he was given a tin of water to drink.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: I'll just leave him in that box until I can
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: fix a larger one for him, the boy said. And
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: then for a while Squinty was left all to himself,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: but he was still in the box. Though the box
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: was set in a shady place on the back porch.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: All this while mister Pig and Missus Pig, as well
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: as the brothers and sister Pigs and the pen at home,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: were wondering what had happened to Squinty. Where do you
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: think he is now? Mamma Wuff Wuff would ask, Oh,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know, missus Pig answered. And will he ever
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: come back to us, asked Twistytail. Perhaps some day, I hope, so,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: said Missus Pig, sort of sighing. Oh, oh, yes, I
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: think he will, said mister Pig. When he gets quite large,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: the boy will get tired of having him for a
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: pet and perhaps bring him back. Were you ever carried
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: off that way? Papa asked Grunter as he rubbed his
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: back where a mosquito had bitten him against the side
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: of the pen. Oh, yes, once answered mister Pig. I
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: was taken away from my pen when I was pretty
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: large and given to a little girl for a pet.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: Much did not keep me long. I guess she would
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: rather have had her dolls. So I was soon brought
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: back to my pen, and I was glad of it. Well,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: I hope they will soon bring Squinty back. Wuff Wuff said,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: it is lonesome without him. But after a while the
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: other pigs found so many things to do, and they
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: were kept so busy eating sour milk and getting fat
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: that they nearly forgot about Squinty. But all this time
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: something was happening to the comical look pig. Toward evening
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: of the first day that Squinty had been put in
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: the new little cage, the boy, who had not been
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: near him in some time, came back to look at
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: his pet. Now I have a larger place for you,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: the boy said, speaking just as though Squinty could understand him,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: and in fact Squinty did know much of what was
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: said to him, though he could not talk back in
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: boy language, being able to speak only his own pig talk.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: And I guess you're hungry too and want something to eat,
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  Speaker 1: the boy went on, I will feed you. Squee squeeze,
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  Speaker 1: squee squealed Squinty. If there was one word in man
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: talk that he understood very well, it was feed. He
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: had often heard the farmer say, well, now I must
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: feed the pigs, and right after that, some nice sour
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: milk would come splashing down into the trough of the pen.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: So when Squinty heard the word feed again, he guessed
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: what was going to happen, and he guessed right too.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: The boy picked Squinty up, box and all and carried
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: him to the back yard. Now I'll give you more
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: room to run about, and then I'll have a nice
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: supper for you, the boy said, talking to his little pig,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: just as you would to your dog or kitty. With
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: a hammer, the boy knocked off some of the slants
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: Then the boy lifted out the comical little pig, and
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: Squinty found himself inside a large box very much like
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: the pen at home. It had clean straw in it,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: and a little trough just like the one at his
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: home where he could eat. But there was nothing in
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: the trough to eat as yet, and the box seemed
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: quite lonesome, for Squinty was all alone. Here you are now,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: some nice sour milk and boiled potatoes, cried the boy,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: And then Squinty smelled the most delicious smell to him.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: At least. Down into the trough came the sour milk
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: and potatoes. Squee squee yelled Squinty in delight, and how
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: fast he ate. That was because he was hungry, you see,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: but pigs nearly always eat fast, as though they were
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: continually in a hurry. Oh isn't it cute? Exclaimed a
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: voice over Squinty's head. He looked up, half shutting his
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: one funny eye and cocking one ear up and letting
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: the other droop down. But he did not stop eating.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: Oh isn't he funny? Cried another voice, and Squinty saw
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: the boy and his sisters looking at him. Yes, he
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: surely is a nice pig, the boy said. In a
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: few days, when he gets over being strange, I'm going
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: to teach him some tricks. Humph, there's that word tricks again,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: thought Squinty. I wonder what tricks are, but I shall
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: very soon find out. For a few days, Squinty was
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: rather lone him in his new pen, all by himself.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: He missed his Papa and Mamma and brothers and sisters.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: But the boy came to see Squinty every day, bringing
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: him nice things to eat, And after a bit Squinty
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: came to look for his new friend. I guess you're
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: getting to know me, aren't you, old fellow? The boy
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: said one day after feeding Squinty, and he scratched the
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: little pig on the back with a stick. U uh,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: grunted Squinty. That I suppose was his way of saying,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: of course, I know you and I like you. Boy.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: One day, about a week after he had come to
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: his new home, Squinty heard the boy say, now I
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: think you're tame enough to be let out. I don't
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: believe you'll run away, will you, But anyhow, I'll tie
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: a string to your leg and then you can't. Squinty
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: wished he could speak boy language and tell his friend
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: that he would not run away as long as he
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: was kindly treated, But of course Squinty could not do this. Instead,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: he could only grunt and squeal. The boy tied a
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: string to Squinty's leg and then let him out of
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: the pen. The comical little pig was glad to have
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: more room in which to move about. He walked first
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: to one side and then the other, rooting in the
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: dirt with his funny rubbery nose. The boy laughed to
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: see him. I guess you're looking for something to eat.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: The boy said, well, let's see if you can find
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: these acorns. The boy hid them under a pile of
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: dirt and watched. Squinty smelled about and sniffed. He could
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: easily tell where the acorns had been hidden, and a
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: moment later he had rooted them up and was eating them. Oh,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: you funny little pig, cried the boy. You're real smart.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: You know how to find acorns. That is one trick. Huh.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: If that is a trick, it's a very easy one,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: just rooting up acorns, thought Squinty to himself. Squinty walked
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: around as far as the rope tied to his leg
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: would let him. The other end of the rope was
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: held by the boy. Once the rope got tangled around
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: Squinty's foot and he jumped over it to get free,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: the boy saw him and cried, Oh, I wonder if
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: I could teach you to jump the rope. That would
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: be a fine trick. Let me see. The boy thought
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: a moment, and then lifted Squinty up and sat him
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: down on one side of the rope, which he raised
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: a little way from the ground, just as girls do
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: when they're playing a skipping game. On the other side
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: of the rope, the boy put an apple. Now, Squinty
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: said Bob if you want that apple, you must jump
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: the rope to get it. Come on. At first, Squinty
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: did not understand what was wanted of him. He saw
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: nothing but the apple and thought how much he wanted it.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: He started for it, but before he could get it,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: the boy pulled up the rope in front of him.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: The rope stopped. Squinty, jump over the rope, if you
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: want the apple, said the boy. Of course, Squinty could
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: not exactly understand this talk. He tried once more to
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: get the apple, but every time he did he found
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: the rope in front of him in the way. Well,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Squinty to himself, I'm going to get that apple
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: rope or no rope, I guess I'll have to get
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: over the rope somehow. So the next time he started
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: for the juicy apple, and the rope was pulled up
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: in front of him. Squinty gave a little spring and
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: over the rope he went, jumping with all four legs,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: coming down on the other side like a circus man
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: jumping over the elephant's back. Oh fine, good, cried the boy,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: clapping his hands. Squinty has learned to do another trick.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: A brunted Squinty as he chewed the apple. So that's
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: another trick, is it? End of chapter seven. Recording by
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  Speaker 2: Chapter eight of Squinty the Comical Pig. This is a
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• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum, Chapter eight, Squinty
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: in the Woods. Bob, the boy who had bought Squinty
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: the Comical Pig, laughed and clapped his hands. His two sisters,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: who were playing with their dolls in the shade of
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: an evergreen tree, heard their brother, and one of them
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: called out, what is it, Bob? What is it? Oh,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: come and see my pig do a trick? Answered the boy.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: He is too funny for anything. Can he really do
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: a trick, asked the smaller sister, whose name was Mollie.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: Indeed he can, the boy said he can do two tricks,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: mind hidden acorns and jump a rope. Oh no, not
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: really jump a rope, cried Sallie. You just come and see,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: the boy said. All the while Squinty was chewing on
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: the apple, which he had picked up from the ground
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: after he had jumped over the rope. He heard what
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: the boy said, and Squinty made up his mind. Well,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: said the little pig to himself, if it is any
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: fun for that boy and his sisters to watch me
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: jump over a rope and dig up acorns, I don't
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: mind doing it for them. They calling me them tricks,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: but I call it getting something to eat. And they
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: were both right. You see, Sallie and Mollie. The two
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: sisters laid down their dolls in the shade and ran
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: toward their brother, who still held one end of the
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: rope that was fast to Squinty's legs. Make him do
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: some tricks for us, begged Mollie. Show us how he
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: jumps the rope, said Sallie. First, I'll have him dig
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: up the acorns, as that's easier, spoke Bob. Here's Squinty,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: he called, find the acorns. Find them well, Squinty had
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: been munching on the apple. The boy had dug a hole,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: put some sweet and acorn nuts into it, and covered
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: them up with dirt. Squinty had not seen them do this,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: but Squinty thought he could find the nuts just the same.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: There were two ways of doing this. Squinty had a
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: very sharp smelling nose. He could smell things afar off
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: that neither you nor I could smell even close by.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: And Squinty could also tell by digging in the ground
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: with his queer rubbery nose, just where the ground was
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: soft and where it was hard. And he knew it
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: would be a soft place where the boy had dug
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: a hole in which to hide the acorns. So when
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: Bob called for Squinty to come and find the acorn nuts,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: even though the little pig had not seen just where
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: they were hidden, Squinty felt sure he could dig them up.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: He'll never find them, said Sallie. Just you watch, exclaimed
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: the boy. He pulled on the rope around Squinty's leg.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: At first, the little pig was not quite sure what
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: was wanted of him. He thought perhaps he was to
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: jump over the rope after another apple, but he saw
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: no fruit waiting for him. Then he looked carefully about
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: and smelled the air. The boy was very gentle with
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: him and waited patiently. And I might say right here
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: that if you ever try to teach your pet any tricks,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: you might be both kind and gentle with them, for
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: you know they are not as smart as you are
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: and cannot think as quickly. Ha I smell acorns, thought
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: Squinty to himself. I guess the boy must want me
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: to do the first trick, as he calls it, and
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: dig up acorns. I'll do it carefully. Squinty sniffed the air.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: When he turned one way, he could smell the acorns
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: quite plainly. When he turned the other he could not
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: smell them quite so well. So he started off in
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: the direction where he could most plainly smell the nuts
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: he loved so well. Next he began rooting in the ground.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: At first it was very hard for his nose, but
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: soon it became soft. Then he could smell the acorns
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: more plainly than before.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: See he is.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: Going right toward them, cried the boy. There he has him,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: exclaimed sallly, Oh, so he has spoke Mollie. I wouldn't
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: have thought he could. And by that time Squinty had
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: found the hole where the boy had covered the acorns
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: with dirt, and Squinty was chewing the sweet nuts. Now
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: make him jump the rope, said Mollie, I will as
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: soon as he eats the acorns, replied the boy. Ha,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: I am going to have another apple just for jumping
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: the rope, thought Squinty in delight. You see, the little
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: pig imagined the trick was done just to get him
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: to eat the apple. He did not count the rope
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: jumping part of it at all, though that really was
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: what the boy wanted. Once more, Bob placed the apple
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: on the ground on the far side of the rope.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: One end of the rope the boy held in his hand.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: The other was around Squinty's legs, but a loop of
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: it was made fast to stick stuck in the ground,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: so the boy could pull on the rope and raise
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: or lower it, just as you girls do when you play.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: Come on, now, Squinty, jump over it, called the boy.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: The little pig saw the apple and smelled it. He
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: wanted very much to get it, but when he ran
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: toward it, he found the rope raised up in front
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: of him. He forgot for a moment his second trick
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: and stood still. Oh, I thought you said he would
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: jump the rope, said Molly, rather disappointed. He will just
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, spoke the boy. Come on, Squinty, he called.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: Once more. Squinty started for the apple. This time he
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: remembered that before he had to jump the rope to
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: get it, so he did it again. Over the rope
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: he went with a little jump, coming down on the
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: side where the apple was, and in a second he
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: was chewing the juicy fruit. There, cried the boy. Didn't
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: he jump the rope? Oh well, he didn't jump it
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: fast back and forth like we girls do, said Molly.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: But it was pretty good for a little pig, said Sally.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: I think so, too, spoke theo. And I'm going to
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: teach him to jump real fast and without going for
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: an apple each time. I'm going to teach him other
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: tricks too. Oh dear, thought Squinty when he heard this.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: So I've learn more tricks. It seems well. I hope
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: they will all be eating ones. Make him do it again,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: suggested Molly. After a bit, no, I haven't any more apples,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: the boy answered, and at first off to make him
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: jump for an apple each time. After a bit, I'll
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: not give him an apple until he's done all his tricks.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: Come on, now, Squinty, back to your pen. The boy
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: lifted up his pet and put him back in the
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: pen that had been especially built for the little pig.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: As soon as he was in it, Squinty ran over
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: to the trough, hoping there would be some sour milk
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: in it, but there was none. You've had enough to
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: eat for a while, said the boy with a laugh.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: Later on, i'll give you milk, uf off, grunted Squinty.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: And I suppose he meant he would be glad to
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: have the milk now, but he got none. So he
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: curled himself up in the clean straw and went to sleep.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: When he awakened, he thought at first he was back
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: in the pen at home, and he cried out, oh wuffluff,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: oh twisty tail. I had the queerest dream. I thought
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: a boy had me, and then I could jump a
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: rope and hunt acorns and do lots of tricks. But
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: I and then Squinty stopped. He looked around and found
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: himself all alone in the new pen. None of his
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: brothers or sisters was near him, and he could not
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: hear his mamma or papa grunting near the feed trough. Ha,
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a dream after all, thought Squinty a bit sorrowfully.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: It's all real I can do tricks, and a boy
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: has me. Every few days. After that, the boy took
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: Squinty out of his pen and let him do the
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: rope jumping an acorn hunting tricks. And it did not
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: take Squinty long to learn to jump the rope. When
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: there was no apple on the other side, the boy
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: would say, jump over the rope, Squinty, and over it
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: the little pig would go. But if he did not
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: get the apple as soon as he jumped, he did
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: get it afterwards, which was just as good. It was
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: sort of a reward for his tricks. You see, now
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: you must learn a new trick, said the boy one day.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: I want you to learn to walk on your hind legs, Squinty.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be easy either, but I guess
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: you can do it. And I'm going to take the
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: rope off your leg, for I do not believe you
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: will run away from me now. So the rope was
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: taken off Squinty's leg, and he liked the boy so
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: much and liked his new home, and the nuts and
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: apples he got to eat were so good that Squinty
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: did not try to run away. Up on your hind legs,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: cried the boy, and by taking hold of Squinty's front feet,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: Bob raised his pet up on the hind legs. Now,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 2: stand there, the boy cried. But when he took away
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: his hands, of course, Squinty came down on all four legs.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: He did not know what the boy meant to have
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: him do. I guess I'll have to stand you in
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: a corner to start with. The boy said, that will
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: brace you up. Then, kindly and gently, the boy took
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: built onto the barn. This made a corner, and the
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: little pig was stood up on his hind legs in
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: that then, with something to lean his back against, he
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: did not feel like falling over, and he remained standing
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: up on two legs with his front feet stuck out
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: in front of him. That's the way you to do it,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: cried Bob. Soon you will be able to stand up
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: without anything to lean against. And a little later you'll
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: be able to walk on your hind legs. Now if
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: here's an apple for you, Squinty. So you see, Squinty
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: received his reward for starting to learn a new trick
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: in a few days, just as the boy had said,
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: the little pig found that he could sit up on
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: his hind legs all alone without anything to lean back against,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: but learning to walk on his legs was a little harder.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: The boy, however, was patient and kind to him. At first,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: Bob held Squinty's front feet and walked along with him
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: so that the little pig would get used to the
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: new trick. Then one day Bob said, now, Squinty, I
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: want you to walk to me all by yourself. Stand up.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: Squinty stood up on his hind legs. The boy backed
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: away from him and stood a little distance off, holding
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: out an ice juicy potato. This time, come and get
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: the potato. Squeeze squee grunted Squinty. I can't, I suppose
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 2: he meant to say. Come on, cried the boy. Don't
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: be afraid, you can do it. Squinty wanted the potato
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: very much, and the only way to get it was
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: to walk to it on his hind legs if he
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: let himself down on all fours. He knew the boy
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: would not give him the potato, So Squinty made up
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: his little pig mind that he would do this new
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: trick off. He started walking by himself on his hind legs,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: just like a trained bear. Fine, that's the way to
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: do it. I knew you could. The boy cried when
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: Squinty reached him and took the potato out of his hand.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: Good little pig, and he scratched Squinty's back with a stick.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: Uff uff, squealed. Squinty very much pleased, and from then
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: on the comical little pig learned many tricks. He can
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: now stand up a long time on his hind legs
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: with an apple on his nose, and he would not
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: eat it until the boy called now, Squinty. Then Squinty
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: would toss the apple up in the air off his
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: nose and catch it as it came down. Oh how
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: good it tasted. Squinty also learned to march around with
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 2: a stick for a gun and play soldier. He liked
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: this trick best of all, for he had two apples
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: to eat. After that, many of Bob's boy friends came
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: to see his trained pig. They all thought he was
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: very funny and cute, and they laughed very hard when
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: Squinty looked at them with his clear, drooping eye. They
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: would feed him apples, potatoes, and sometimes bits of cake
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: that Bob's mother gave them. Squinty grew very fond of cake.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: Then one day something happened. Bob always used to lock
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: the door of the new pig pen every night, for
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: though he knew his pet was quite tame, now he
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: thought if the door was left open, Squinty might wander away.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: And that is exactly what Squinty did. He did not
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: mean to do wrong, but he knew no better. One evening,
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: after he had done many tricks that day, when Squinty
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: found the door of his pen part way open, he
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: just pushed it the rest of the way with his
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: strong nose, and out he walked. No one saw him.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: Ufuff grunted Squinty, looking about. I guess I'll go take
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: a walk by myself. I may find something good to eat.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: Out of the pen he went. There was no garden here,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: such as the farmer had at Squinty's first home. But
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: not far from the pig pen was the big green wood.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: I'll go over and there and see what happens, thought Squinty.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: Perhaps I may find some acorns. So Squinty ran away
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: to the woods. End of chapter eight. Chapter nine of
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: Squinty the Comical Pig. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 1:43:46
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• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: Comical Pig by Richard Barnum, Chapter nine, Squinty Balloon Ride.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: This was the third time Squinty had run away, but
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: not once did he intend to do any wrong. You see,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: he knew no better. He just found his pen door
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: open and walked out. That was all there was to it.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: I wonder what will happen to me this time, thought
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: the comical little Pig as he hurried along over the
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: ground toward the woods. I don't believe Don the dog
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 2: will find me here, for he must be back on
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 2: the farm. But some other dog might. I had better
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: be careful, I guess. When Squinty thought this, he stopped
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: and looked carefully around for signs of a barking dog,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: but he saw none. It was very still and quiet,
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: for it was nearly supper time in the big house
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: where Bob lived, and he and his sisters were waiting
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: for the bell to ring to call him to the supper.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: But Squinty had had his supper and for the time,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: he was not hungry, and if I do get hungry again,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: I may find something in the woods, he said to himself.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: Acorn nuts grow in the woods, and they are very good.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: I'll root up some of them once or twice. Squinty
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: looked back toward the pen he had run from to
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: see if Bob his master, were coming after him. But
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: Bob had no idea his little pet had run away.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: In fact, just then Bob was wondering what new trick
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: he could teach Squinty the next day. On and on
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: ran the comical pig. Once he found something round and
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: yellow on the ground. Ha, that looks like a yellow apple,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: thought Squinty, and he bit it hard with his white teeth.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: Then his mouth all puckered up. He felt a sour taste,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: and he cried out, whoa, I don't like that. Oh,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: that isn't an apple at all. And it wasn't It
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: was a lemon the grocery boy had dropped. Oh how sour,
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: grunted Squinty. I'd like a drink of water to take
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: the taste of that out of my mouth. Squinty lifted
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: his nose up in the air and sniffed and snuffed.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: He wanted to try to smell a spring of water,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: and he did, just on the edge of the big wood.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: Over to the spring. He ran on his little shore legs,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: and soon he was having a fine drink. Now I
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: feel better, Squinty said, what will happen next? Nothing did
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: for some time, and when it did, it was so
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: strange that Squinty never forgot it as long as he lived.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you all about it. He walked on through
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: the woods. Squinty did, and before long he found some acorns.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: He ate as many as he wanted, and then, as
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: he always felt sleepy after he had eaten, he thought
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 2: he would lie down and have a nap. He found
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: a place near a big stump where there was a
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 2: soft bed of dried leaves nearly as nice as his
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: straw bed in the pen at home. On this he
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: stretched out, and soon he was fast asleep. When Squinty awoke,
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: it was real dark. He jumped up with a little
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: grunt and said to himself, well, I did not mean
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: to stay away from my pencil long. I guess I
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: had better go back. Squinty started to go back the
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: way he had come, But I guess you can imagine
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: what happens. It was so dark he could not find
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: the path. He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss and again
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: on the hard ground. Finally, Squinty thought, well, it is
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 2: of no use. I can't get back tonight. That is sure.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: I shall have to stay here. Oh dear, I hope
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: there are no dogs to bite me. Squinty listened carefully.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: He couldn't hear no barks. He hunted around in the
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 2: dark until he found another soft bed of leaves, and
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: on that he cuddled himself up to go to sleep
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: for the night. He was a little afraid, but after
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: all he was used to sleeping alone, and even though
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: he was outside of his pen now, he did not
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 2: worry much. In the morning, I shall go back to
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: the boy who taught me tricks, thought Squinty. But something
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: else happened in the morning. Squinty was awake when the
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: sun first peeped up from behind the clouds. The little
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: pig scratched his ear where a mosquito had bitten him
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: during the night. Then he stretched first one leg and
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: then the others, and said, ha ho hum uf uf,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 2: I guess I'll have some acorns for my breakfast. It
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: was a very easy matter for Squinty to get his breakfast.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: He did not have to wash or comb his hair,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: or even dress just as he was. He got up
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: out of his leaf bed and began rooting around for
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 2: some acorns in the ground. He soon found all he
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 2: wanted and ate them. Then he felt thirsty, so he
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: looked around until he had found another spring of cool water,
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: where he drank as much as he needed. And now
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: to go back home to the boy who taught me tricks,
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  Speaker 2: said Squinty to himself. I guess he is wondering where
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  Speaker 2: I am. And indeed that boy Bob and his sisters
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  Speaker 2: Mollie and Sallie, were wondering where Squinty was. They saw
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  Speaker 2: the open door of the pen, and the boy recalled
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: that he had forgotten to lock it. Oh, Squinty is gone,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: he cried, and he felt very badly. Indeed, but I
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: have no time to tell you more of that boy.
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  Speaker 2: Now I must relate for you the wonderful adventures of Squinty.
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  Speaker 2: Squinty went this way and that through the woods, but
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: he could not find the path that led to his pen.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: He tried and tried again, but it was of no use. Well,
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  Speaker 2: said Squinty at last, sitting down beside a hall a
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  Speaker 2: log I guess I am lost. That is all there
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  Speaker 2: is to it. I am lost in the big woods.
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  Speaker 2: Oh dear. I almost wished on the dog or the
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  Speaker 2: farmer would come and find me. Now he waited, but
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: no one came. He listened, but he heard nothing. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I might as well eat and go to sleep again,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 2: said Squinty. Maybe something will happen. Then soon he was
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: asleep again, But he was suddenly awaken. He heard a
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: great crash in the trees over his head. Gracious, I
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: hope that isn't a dog after me, cried the little pig.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: He looked up, Squinty did. He saw something coming down
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  Speaker 2: from the sky through the branches of the trees, A
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: big round thing, like more than ten thousand rubber balls
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: made into one. Below the round thing hung a square
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: basket with many ropes and other things fast to it,
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  Speaker 2: And in the basket were two men. They looked over
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: the edge of the basket. One of them pulled on
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  Speaker 2: a rope, and the big thing, which was a balloon,
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: though Squinty did not know it, came to the ground
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: with a bang. Well, at last we have made a landing,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: said one of the men. Yes, said the other, and
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: we shall have to throw out some bags of sand
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: to go up again. Squinty did not know what this meant,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll explain to you that a landing is when
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 2: a balloon comes down to the ground, and when the
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: men in it want to go up again, they have
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  Speaker 2: to toss out some of the sand bags or ballast
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  Speaker 2: they carry to make the balloon so light that the
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  Speaker 2: gas in it will take it up again. The men
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: began tossing out the bags of sand. Squinty saw them,
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: but he was not afraid. Why should he be, for
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 2: no men or boys had ever been cruel to him.
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  Speaker 2: Uf Uff grunted Squinty, getting up and going over to
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  Speaker 2: the bags of sand. Maybe this is good to eat,
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 2: he thought. If it is, I will take a bite.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 2: I am hungry. Oh look at that pig, suddenly, called
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: one of the men in the balloon basket. Sure enough
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 2: it is a pig, exclaimed the other. And what a
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: comical little chap he is, he went on, See the
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: funny way he looks at you. At that moment, Squinty
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: looked as he often did with one eye partly clothes,
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 2: the other open, and one ear cocked frontwards and the
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  Speaker 2: other backwards. Say he's a cute one, all right, said
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  Speaker 2: the first man. Let's take him along. We'd only have
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 2: to toss out as much sand as he weighs, so
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: we could go up. Oh, let's take him along anyhow,
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 2: insisted the other. Maybe he's a mascot for us. Well,
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: if he's a mascot, all right, then we'll take him.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 2: We need some good luck on this trip. Squinty did
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: not know what a mascot was. Perhaps he thought it
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: was something good to eat. But I might say that
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: a mascot is something which some person thinks brings them
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: good luck. Often baseball nines or football elevens will have
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 2: a smart boy, or a goat or a dog whom
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 2: they call their mascot. They take him along wherever they
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: play games, thinking the mascot helps them to win. Of
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: course it really does not, But there is no harm
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: in a mascot anyhow. Yes, take him along in the
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 2: balloon with us, said the taller of the two men.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: See he doesn't seem to be a bit afraid. No,
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: And look, he must be a trick pig. Maybe he
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: got away from some circus, cried the other man. For
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 2: at that moment, Squinty stood up on his hind legs,
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 2: as the boy had taught him, and walked over towards
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: the big balloon basket. What he really wanted was something
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: to eat. But the men did not know that. He
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: surely is a cute little pig, cried the man. I'll
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: lift him in. You toss out another bag of sand,
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: and we'll go up. The next moment, before he could
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 2: get out of the man's grasp if he had wanted to,
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 2: Squinty felt himself lifted off the ground. He was put
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: in the bottom of the basket, which held many things.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: A second later, Squinty the Comical Pig felt himself flying
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: upward through the air. Squinty was off on a balloon trip.
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  Speaker 2: End of chapter nine.
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  Speaker 3: Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum. Chapter ten Squinty
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  Speaker 3: and the Squirrel Up, Up and Up. Some more, went Squinty,
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  Speaker 3: the comical pig. At first, the fast motion in the
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  Speaker 3: balloon made him a little dizzy, just as it might
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  Speaker 3: make you feel queer the first time you went on
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  Speaker 3: a merry go round. Uf uf, grunted Squinty. He was
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 3: so surprised at this sudden adventure that really he did
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 3: not know what to say. I wonder if he's afraid,
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 3: said one of the men. He acts so, the other answered,
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  Speaker 3: but he'll get used to it. How high up are
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  Speaker 3: you going? Oh about a mile, I guess. Squinty cuddled
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 3: down in the basket of the balloon between two bags
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  Speaker 3: full of something and shivered. My goodness, me, thought poor Squinty.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 3: A mile up in the air. That's awfully high. He
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 3: knew about how far a mile was on land, for
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 3: it was about the distance from the farm house near
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 3: where his pen used to be, to the village church.
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  Speaker 3: He had often heard the farmer man say so. And
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 3: if it was a mile from my pen to the church,
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 3: and that mile of road was stood straight up in
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 3: the air, thought Squinty, it would be a terrible long
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 3: way to fall. I hope I don't fall. And it
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 3: did not seem as if he would at least not
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  Speaker 3: right away. The basket in which he was riding looked
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 3: good and strong. Squinty had shut his eyes when he
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 3: heard the men speak about going a mile up in
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 3: the air. But now as the balloon seemed to have
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 3: stopped rising, the little pig opened his eyes again and
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 3: peered all about him. Look, exclaimed one of the men,
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 3: with a laugh. Hasn't that pig the most comical face
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  Speaker 3: you ever saw? That's what he has answered the other.
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  Speaker 3: He makes me want to laugh every time I look
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  Speaker 3: at him with that funny, half shit eye of his.
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  Speaker 3: Well thought Squinty, I'm glad somebody is happy and jolly
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  Speaker 3: and wants to laugh, for I'm sure I don't. I
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  Speaker 3: wish I hadn't run away from the nice boy who
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 3: taught me the tricks. Then, as Quinty remembered how he
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 3: had been taught to stand up on his hind legs,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 3: he thought he would do that trick. Now. He was hungry,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 3: and he imagined perhaps if he did that trick, the
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  Speaker 3: men would give him something to eat. Look at the
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 3: little chap, cried one of the men. He's showing off
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  Speaker 3: all right. Yes, he's a smart pig, said the other.
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  Speaker 3: He must be a trick pig, and I guess whoever
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  Speaker 3: owns him will be sorry he is lost. Huh, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sorry myself, thought Squinty to himself, as he walked around
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  Speaker 3: on his hind legs. I wonder if these men are
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 3: ever going to give me anything to eat? He went on.
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  Speaker 3: He looked at them from his queer squinting eye, but
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  Speaker 3: the men did not seem to know that the little
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  Speaker 3: pig was hungry. On and on sailed the balloon, being
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  Speaker 3: blown by the wind like a sailboat. Squinty dropped down
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  Speaker 3: on his four legs, since he found that walking on
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  Speaker 3: his hind legs brought him no food. Then, as he
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 3: made his way about the basket, he saw some more
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  Speaker 3: of those queer bags filled with something. There were a
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 3: great many of them in the balloon, and Squinty thought
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 3: they must have something good in them. Squinty squatted down
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  Speaker 3: beside one, and with his strong teeth, he soon had
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 3: bitten a hole in the cloth. Then he took a
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 3: big bite, but oh dear, all at once he found
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 3: his mouth filled with coarse sand that gritted on his
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 3: teeth and made the cold shivers run down his back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, thought poor Squinty, that's no good sand. I
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 3: wonder if those men eat sand. Of course they didn't.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 3: The sand in the bags was ballast. The balloon men
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 3: carried it with them, and when they found the balloon
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  Speaker 3: coming down, because some of the gas had leaked out
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 3: of the round ball above the basket, they would let
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  Speaker 3: some of the sand run out of the bags to
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  Speaker 3: the ground below. This would make the balloon lighter and
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  Speaker 3: it would rise again. Squeeze squee uf uff, grunted Squinty
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  Speaker 3: as he wiped the sand off his tongue on one
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  Speaker 3: of his legs. I don't like that. I'm hungry. Why
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  Speaker 3: what's the matter with the little pig, asked one of
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 3: the men, turning round and looking at Squinty. He must
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 3: be hungry, said the other See he has bitten a
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  Speaker 3: hole in one of our sand bags. Let's feed him,
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  Speaker 3: all right, give him something to eat. But we didn't
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  Speaker 3: bring any pig food along with us. I'll give him
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  Speaker 3: some bread and milk. The other man said, we don't
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 3: want much more ourselves, for we are nearly at our
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  Speaker 3: last landing place. Squeeze squee squealed Squinty. When he heard this,
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  Speaker 3: he watched the man put some bread and milk in
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  Speaker 3: a tin pan and set it down on the floor
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  Speaker 3: of the basket. Then Squinty put his nose in the
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  Speaker 3: dish and began to eat, and oh, how good it tasted.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, the milk was sweet instead of sour, for
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  Speaker 3: men do not usually like saur milk. Squinty had a
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  Speaker 3: good meal, and then he went to sleep. What happened
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  Speaker 3: while Squinty slept, little pig did not know, But when
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  Speaker 3: he woke up it was all dark, and he knew
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  Speaker 3: it must be night. So he went to sleep again,
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  Speaker 3: And the next time he awakened the sun was shining,
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 3: so he felt sure it was morning. And then all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden something happened. One of the men called out,
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 3: there is a good place to land. Yes, we'll go
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  Speaker 3: down there, agreed the other. Then he pulled a string.
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  Speaker 3: Squinty did not know what it was for, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you. It was to open a hole in the
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  Speaker 3: balloon so the gas would rush at then the balloon
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 3: would begin to fall. And that is what happened. Down,
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  Speaker 3: down went the balloon. It went very fast, and Squinty
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 3: felt dizzy. Faster and faster fell the balloon, until at
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  Speaker 3: last it gave such a bump down on the ground
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 3: that Squinty was bounced right over the side of the basket,
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 3: right out of the basket. The comical little pig was bounced,
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  Speaker 3: but he came down in a soft bed of leaves,
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 3: so he was not hurt in the least, and he
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 3: landed on his feet just like a cat, and gave
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 3: a loud squeal. He was so surprised, and then Squinty
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 3: ran away. Almost anybody would have run to I guess
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 3: after falling down in a balloon and being bounced out
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 3: that way, Squinty had had enough of balloon riding. I
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 3: don't know where I'm going nor what will happen to
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  Speaker 3: me now, thought Squinty, but I'm going to run and
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 3: hide and run he did. He found himself in the
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 3: woods just the same kind of words as where he
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 3: had met first the two balloon men, only of course
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 3: it was much farther off, for he had traveled a
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 3: long way through the air. On and on ran Squinty
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 3: all at once in a three over his head, he
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 3: heard a funny chattering noise. Chipper, chipper, chipper, chat chat.
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  Speaker 3: Where went the noise? Squinty looked up in the tree,
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  Speaker 3: and there he saw a lovely little girl squirrel frisking
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  Speaker 3: about on the branches. Then Squinty was no longer afraid.
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  Speaker 3: Out of the leaves, he jumped, giving a squeal and
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  Speaker 3: a grunt which meant, oh, how do you do. I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad to see you. My name is Squinty. What is
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  Speaker 3: your name? My name is Slicko, answered the lively little
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  Speaker 3: girl squirrel as she jumped about. Come on and play.
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  Speaker 3: Squinty felt very happy then end of chapter ten chapter
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  Speaker 3: eleven of Squinty the Comical Pig. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 3: or Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum. Chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 3: Squinty and the Merry Monkey. Where do you live? Squinty
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  Speaker 3: asked Slicko, the jumping squirrel, as she skipped from one
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  Speaker 3: tree branch to another and so reached the ground near
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  Speaker 3: the Comical little Pig. Oh, I live in a pen,
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  Speaker 3: answered Squinty. But I'm not there now. No, I see
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  Speaker 3: you're not, spoke Slicko with a laugh, which showed her
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  Speaker 3: sharp white teeth. But what are you doing so far
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  Speaker 3: away from your pen? Or perhaps it is close by,
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  Speaker 3: though I never saw you in these woods before. She
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  Speaker 3: went on looking around as if she might see the
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  Speaker 3: pigpen on one of the trees. No, I have never
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  Speaker 3: been here before, Squinty answered, My pen is far from here.
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  Speaker 3: A master is a boy who taught me to do
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  Speaker 3: tricks such as jumping rope. But I ran away and
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 3: had a balloon ride. What's a balloon, asked Slicko as
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 3: she combed out her tail with the chestnut burr. Squirrels
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  Speaker 3: always use chestnut burrs for combs. A balloon is something
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  Speaker 3: that goes up in the air, answered Squinty, and it
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 3: has bags of sand in it. Well, I can go
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  Speaker 3: up in the air when I climb a tree, went
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  Speaker 3: on Slicko with a jolly laugh. Am I a balloon?
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 3: No you're not, said Squinty. A balloon is very different. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I know where there is some sand, spoke Slicko. I
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 3: could get some of that and put it in leaf bags.
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  Speaker 3: Would that make me a balloon?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 3: No, of course not, Squinty answered. You could never be
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 3: a balloon. But if you know where there is some
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 3: and perhaps you know where there is some sour milk.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very hungry. I never heard of sour milk, replied
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 3: the girl's squirrel. But I know where to find some nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like hickory nuts? I I guess so, answered Squinty,
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  Speaker 3: thinking perhaps they were like a corns. Please show me
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  Speaker 3: where there are some. Come on, chattered slickle. She led
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 3: the way through the woods, leaping from one tree branch
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  Speaker 3: to another over Squinty's head. The little pig ran along
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 3: on the ground through the dry leaves. Sometimes he went
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 3: on four feet, and sometimes he stood up straight on
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 3: his hind feet. Can you do that, he asked the squirrel.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 3: It is a trick the boy taught me. Oh yes,
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 3: I can sit up on my hind legs and eat
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  Speaker 3: a nut, the squirrell girl said, But nobody taught me
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 3: I could always do it. I don't call that a trick. Well,
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 3: it's a trick for me, said Squinty. But where are
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  Speaker 3: the hickory nuts you spoke of? Right here, answered Slicko,
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  Speaker 3: the jumping squirrel, hopping about as lively as a cricket,
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  Speaker 3: and she pointed to a pile of nuts in a
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  Speaker 3: hollow stump Squinty tried to chew some, but as soon
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 3: as he tipped them in his mouth, he cried out,
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  Speaker 3: Oh my, how hard the shells are. This is worse
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  Speaker 3: than the sand. I can't chew hickory nuts. Have you
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  Speaker 3: no other kind? Oh? Yes, I know where there are
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  Speaker 3: some occorns, answered Slicko, But I do not care for
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  Speaker 3: them as well as for hickory nuts. Oh please show
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  Speaker 3: me the acorns, begged Squinty. Here they are, spoke Slicko,
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  Speaker 3: jumping a little farther, and she pointed to a pile
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 3: of corns in another hollow stump. Oh these are fine,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, grunted Squinty, and he began to eat them
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 3: all at once. There sounded through the words a noise
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 3: like chat chat chatter. Where Why what's that? Cried Squinty,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 3: turning quickly around. That is my mamma calling me, said Slicko,
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  Speaker 3: the jumping squirrel. I shall have to go home to
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  Speaker 3: my nest now. Good bye, is Squinty. I like you
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 3: very much, and I hope I shall soon see you again.
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  Speaker 3: I hope so too, spoke Squinty, And while he went
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  Speaker 3: on eating the acorns, Slicko ran along the tree branches
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  Speaker 3: to her nest. And in another book I shall tell
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  Speaker 3: you some more stories about Slicko the jumping squirrel, But
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  Speaker 3: in this book I have room to write only about Squinty.
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  Speaker 3: The little comical pig. Was rather lonesome after Slicko had
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  Speaker 3: left him, but he was no longer hungry thanks to
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  Speaker 3: the accorns, so he walked on and on, and pretty
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  Speaker 3: soon he came to a road. And down the road
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  Speaker 3: he saw coming the strangest sight. There were a lot
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  Speaker 3: of big wagons, all painted red and green and gold.
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  Speaker 3: Many horses drew each wagon, the big wheels of which
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  Speaker 3: rattles like thunder. And beside the wagons there were many
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  Speaker 3: strange animals walking along, animals which Squinty had never seen before.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my, cried Squinty, this is worse than the balloon.
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  Speaker 3: I must run away. But just as he turned to run,
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  Speaker 3: he saw a little animal jump out of one of
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  Speaker 3: the big wagons and come toward him. This animal was
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  Speaker 3: something like a little boy, only instead of clothes, he
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  Speaker 3: was covered with harry fur, and the animal had a
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  Speaker 3: long tail, which Squinty knew no boy ever had. Squinty
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  Speaker 3: was so so pried at seeing the strange animal that
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  Speaker 3: the little pig stood still. The hairy animal with the
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  Speaker 3: long tail came straight for the bush behind which Squinty
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  Speaker 3: was hiding and crawled through. Then the two stood looking
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  Speaker 3: at one another while the big wagons rumbled past on
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  Speaker 3: the road. Hello, Squinty finally exclaimed, who are you? Why?
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  Speaker 3: I am Mappo, the merry monkey, was the answer, as
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  Speaker 3: he curled his long tail around a stick of wood.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't need to ask who you are. You
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  Speaker 3: are a pig. I can see that, for we have
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  Speaker 3: one in our circus, and the clown rides him around
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  Speaker 3: the rink and it is too funny for anything. Ha.
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  Speaker 3: So you're a monkey, asked Squinty. But what do you
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  Speaker 3: mean by a circus. That's a circus, answered Mapple, pointing
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  Speaker 3: with one paw through a hole in the bush at
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  Speaker 3: the queer animals and the red, golden green wagons. That is,
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  Speaker 3: it will be a circus when they put up the
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  Speaker 3: big tent and all the people come. Didn't you ever
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  Speaker 3: see it, sir, never answered Squinty. Did you ever ride
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  Speaker 3: in a balloon? Never answered Mappo. Well then we are even,
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  Speaker 3: said Squinty. Now you tell me about a circus, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you about the balloon, well, said the monkey.
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  Speaker 3: A circus is a big show in a tent to
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  Speaker 3: make people laugh. There are clowns and animals to look at.
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  Speaker 3: I'm one of the animals, but I ran out of
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  Speaker 3: my cage when the door flew open. Why did you
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  Speaker 3: run away, asked Squinty. Oh, I got tired of staying
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  Speaker 3: in a cage, and I was afraid the big tiger
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  Speaker 3: might bite me. I'll run back again pretty soon before
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  Speaker 3: they miss me. Now you tell me about your balloon ride.
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  Speaker 3: So Squinty told the Merry Monkey all about running away
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  Speaker 3: and learning tricks and having a ride in the queer basket.
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  Speaker 3: I can do tricks too, said Mappo. But just now
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  Speaker 3: I'm hungry. I wonder if any cocoanut trees are in
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  Speaker 3: these words. I don't know what a cocoanut is, answered Squinty,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll give you some of my corns. The comical
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  Speaker 3: Little Pig and the Merry Monkey heat under the bush
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  Speaker 3: and ate the corns as they watched the circus procession
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  Speaker 3: grow fast. It was not a regular parade, as the
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  Speaker 3: show was going only from one town to another. Squinty
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  Speaker 3: looked at the beautiful wagons and at the strange animals,
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  Speaker 3: some with big humps on their backs. At last he
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  Speaker 3: saw some very big creatures, and he cried out, Oh, Mappo,
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  Speaker 3: what are those animals? They have a tail at each end.
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  Speaker 3: Those are elephants, said Mappo. And they do not have
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  Speaker 3: two tails. One is a tail and the other is
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  Speaker 3: their trunk or long nose by which they pick up
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  Speaker 3: peanuts and other things to eat. And they can drink
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  Speaker 3: water through it too. Oh elephants, eh, exclaimed Squinty. But
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  Speaker 3: who is that big fear is looking one with two
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  Speaker 3: long teeth sticking out. I would be afraid of him.
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha, you wouldn't need to be, said Mapple with
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  Speaker 3: a merry laugh. That is Tom Tom, the jolliest elephan
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  Speaker 3: in the whole circus. Why he is so kind, he
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't hurt a fly, and he is so happy that
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  Speaker 3: everyone loves him. He is always playing jokes. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad he is so jolly, spoke Squinty as he watched Tomptum.
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  Speaker 3: When the other elephants march slowly along the road on
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  Speaker 3: their big feet like washed ups, swinging their long trunks,
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  Speaker 3: then Mappo the monkey and Squinty the comical pig started
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  Speaker 3: off through the woods ender chapter eleven Chapter twelve of
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  Speaker 3: Squinty the Comical Pig. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 3: Comical Pig by Richard Barnum. Chapter twelve, Squinty gets home again. Squinty,
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  Speaker 3: I don't go. We are going to find any cocoanut
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  Speaker 3: trees in these woods, said Mappo the monkey, after he
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  Speaker 3: and the little pig had wandered on for some time.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't seem so, does it, spoke Squinty, looking all around,
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  Speaker 3: first with his wide open eye, and then with this
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  Speaker 3: queer droopy one. The monkey ran along, now on the ground,
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  Speaker 3: and now, and then, swinging himself up in the branches
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  Speaker 3: of trees by his long legs, each one of which
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  Speaker 3: had a sort of hand on the end. Sometimes he
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  Speaker 3: hung by his tail, for monkeys are made to do that.
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  Speaker 3: My I wish I could get up in the trees
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  Speaker 3: the way you do, said Squinty. Do you think I
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  Speaker 3: could hang by my tail? Mappo, I don't know, answered
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  Speaker 3: the monkey, scratching his head. Your tail has a nice
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  Speaker 3: little curl in it, almost like mine. Did you ever
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  Speaker 3: try to hang by your tail?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: I never did. Well, you don't know what you can
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  Speaker 3: do until you try, said Mapple. The two animal friends
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  Speaker 3: soon came to wear some of the corner had fallen
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  Speaker 3: off a tree, and they ate as many as they wanted.
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  Speaker 3: Mappo said they were not as good as cocoanuts, but
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  Speaker 3: he liked them pretty well because he was hungry, and
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  Speaker 3: Squinty thought of corns were just the best things he
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  Speaker 3: had ever tasted, except apples and potatoes, or perhaps sour milk.
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  Speaker 3: By this time, it was getting dark, and Squinty said, Oh, dear,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder where we can sleep to night. Oh, do
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  Speaker 3: not let that worry you, said Mapple. I'm used to
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  Speaker 3: living in the woods when I was little. Before I
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  Speaker 3: was caught and put in the circus, I lived in
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  Speaker 3: the woods all the while. See there is a nice
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  Speaker 3: hollow stump filled with leaves for you to sleep in,
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  Speaker 3: And I will climb a tree and sleep in that.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't you sleep down in the stump with me, asked Squinty.
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  Speaker 3: It's sort of lonesome all by yourself in the dark. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'll sleep O with you, said Mappo. Now we'll make
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  Speaker 3: up a nice bed. But just as they were piling
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  Speaker 3: some more leaves in the hollow stump, they heard many
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  Speaker 3: voices of men shouting in the woods. Here he is,
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  Speaker 3: Here is that runaway monkey. I see him, Come and
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  Speaker 3: catch him, cried the men. Oh they are from the circus.
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  Speaker 3: There after me, cried Mapple. I must run and hide.
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  Speaker 3: Good bye, Squinty. I'll see you again sometime. Maybe you'd
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  Speaker 3: better run also, or the circus men may catch you.
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  Speaker 3: Squinty looked through the trees and saw a number of
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  Speaker 3: men coming toward him and the monkey. Then Mapple climbed
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  Speaker 3: up in a tall tree, and Squinty ran away as
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  Speaker 3: fast as his little short legs would take him. Never
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  Speaker 3: mind the pig, get the monkey. Squinty heard one man cry,
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  Speaker 3: and then the comical little pig dodged under a bush
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  Speaker 3: and kept on running. When Squinty stopped running, it was
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  Speaker 3: quite dark. He could hardly see, and he had run
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  Speaker 3: into several trees and bumped his nose a number of times.
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  Speaker 3: It hurt him very much. Well, I guess I'm lost again,
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  Speaker 3: thought Squinty, and I am all alone. Oh what a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things has happened to me since I was
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  Speaker 3: in the pen with my Mamma and Papa and sisters
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  Speaker 3: and brothers. I wish I were back with them again.
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  Speaker 3: Squinty felt very sad and lonesome. He wondered if the
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  Speaker 3: circus man had caught Mapple. Then he felt that he
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  Speaker 3: had better find a place where he could cover himself
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  Speaker 3: up with the dry leaves and go to sleep. He
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  Speaker 3: walked about in the dark until all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: he stumbled into a hole that was filled with dried grass.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I had better stay here, thought Squinty. So
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  Speaker 3: he pulled some of the grass over him and went
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  Speaker 3: to sleep. When he awoke, the sun was shining. I
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  Speaker 3: must get my breakfast, thought Squinty. He hunted about until
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  Speaker 3: he had found some occorns, and then, coming to a
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  Speaker 3: little brook of water, he took a long drink. Something
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  Speaker 3: about the brook made Squinty look at it carefully. Why why,
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  Speaker 3: he exclaimed to himself. It seems to me I have
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  Speaker 3: been here before. Yes, I'm sure I have. This is
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  Speaker 3: the place where I first came to get a drink,
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  Speaker 3: when first I ran away. It is near the pen
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  Speaker 3: where I used to live. Oh, I wonder if I
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  Speaker 3: can find that. The heart of Squinty was beating fast
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  Speaker 3: as he looked around at the scenes he had seen
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  Speaker 3: when he was a very little pig some weeks before. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it was the same brook, he was sure of it.
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  Speaker 3: And there was the garden of potatoes and the cornfield
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  Speaker 3: where he had first lost his way. Hark, what was
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 3: that off in the rows of corn? He heard a
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 3: dog barking? Somehow he knew that dogs bark. If that
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  Speaker 3: could be Dawn, thought Squinty. Hopefully, the barking sounded nearer.
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  Speaker 3: Squinty turned round, standing on the edge of the little
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 3: brook and waited, his heart beating faster and faster. All
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  Speaker 3: at once there came running through the potato field a
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  Speaker 3: black and white dog. Squinty knew him at once. It
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  Speaker 3: was Dawn. Bow Wow, bow wow, barked Dawn. Well, if
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  Speaker 3: there isn't that comical little pig, Squinty, where in the
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  Speaker 3: world did you come from? You've been running away. I'll
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 3: be bound now. I'm going to take you back to
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  Speaker 3: the pen. Oh don I'm so glad to see you,
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 3: squealed Squinty. I I did run away, but I never
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  Speaker 3: will any more. I am lost. Oh, Don, don't take
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  Speaker 3: me by the ear. I'll go with you, all right,
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  Speaker 3: barked Don, kindly, come along, Your pen isn't far off,
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  Speaker 3: and he ran along beside the little pig, who, after
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  Speaker 3: many adventures, had wandered back home. Squinty and Don came
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 3: to the edge of the potato field. Well, I never
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 3: exclaimed the farmer man, who was there hoeing the potatoes.
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  Speaker 3: If there isn't that comical little pig, I sold that
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  Speaker 3: boy Bob. I wonder where he came from. Bow wow,
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  Speaker 3: bow wow. I found him bart dawn. But of course
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  Speaker 3: the farmer did not understand. Well, I'll put you back
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  Speaker 3: in the pen again until that boy sends for you,
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  Speaker 3: said the farmer as he lifted Squinty over into the
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  Speaker 3: pen where his mamma and papa and brothers and sisters were. Why,
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 3: why it's Squinty quite missus pig, he's come back, grunted
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 3: mister pig. Oh, I'm so glad, said Wuff wuff, and
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 3: so am I at it, twisty tail, as she rubbed
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  Speaker 3: her nose against Squinty's Where have you been and what
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  Speaker 3: happened to you? She asked her brother. Oh many thanks,
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  Speaker 3: he said, I have learned some tricks. I have been
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  Speaker 3: up in a balloon. I met Slicker the Jumping squirrel,
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  Speaker 3: Mappo the merry monkey, and I saw Tom Tom the
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 3: jolly circus elephant. Now I'm home again. And which did
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 3: you like best of all? Asked missus Pig when they
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  Speaker 3: had finished asking him questions getting back home, answered Squinty,
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  Speaker 3: as he took a big drink of sour milk. And
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 3: that is the story of Squinty the Comical Pig. The
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 3: farmer sent word to the boy that his pet was
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 3: back in the pen, but the boy said he thought
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 3: he did not want a pet pig any more. So Squinty,
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  Speaker 3: for the time being, stayed with his family. Endof chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Enderf Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum