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EARLY AND LATE

BY W. S. REED

Go to bed early--wake up with joy;
Go to bed late--cross girl or boy.

Go to bed early--ready for play;
Go to bed late--moping all day.

Go to bed early--no pains or ills;
Go to bed late--doctors and pills.

Go to bed early--grow very tall;
Go to bed late--stay very small.

The Little Pink Pig and the Big Road.

BY JASMINE STONE VAN DRESSER

Once there was a little pink pig with five little spotted brothers and
sisters. They had a nice home in the wood lot with their mama, and a
nice yard with a little white fence around it. The little pigs were very
happy playing in the yard. They made mud pies and baked them in the sun.

One day the little pink pig asked his mama to let him go out of the gate
into the big road.

"You are too little and do not know enough yet," said his mama. "When
you grow bigger I shall teach you about the big road, and then you may
go. Now, be a good little pig, and run and play with your brothers and
sisters."

But the little pink pig would not play with his brothers and sisters. He
ran off in a corner by himself and would not make mud pies.

[Illustration: "THE BLACK AND WHITE THING ROLLED HIM OVER IN THE DUST."]

Pretty soon the milkman came in his wagon to bring the milk for dinner.
He carried it in and knocked at the back door, and poured it in a pail
for mama. Then he ran out as fast as he could and hopped up in his wagon
and drove away.

But he forgot to close the gate.

The little pink pig saw the gate was open, and he ran right out into the
big road.

"I will show my mama how much I know," he said. And he trotted down the
big road as fast as his little pink legs would carry him.

He had not gone very far when he saw a big black and white thing. The
black and white thing ran after the little pig, and rolled him over in
the dust.

[Illustration: "AND HE TOOK THE LITTLE PINK PIG HOME."]

The little pig squealed and squealed, and the black and white thing
rolled him and rolled him over, and kept saying "Bow wow!" But by and by
he turned and went away.

The little pig got up and tried to shake off the dust, but he couldn't
shake it all off. He wanted to go home, but he had rolled over and over
so much, that he couldn't tell where home was. So he ran into a
cornfield to hide, till he was sure the black and white thing was gone.

Pretty soon a man came along and found him in the cornfield and said:

"Hello, pin