ow! Bow wow!" barked Don. "Well, if there isn't that comical
little pig, Squinty! Where in the world did you come from? You've been
running away, I'll be bound! Now I'm going to take you back to the pen!"

"Oh, Don! I am so glad to see you!" squealed Squinty. "I--I did run
away, but I never will any more. I am lost. Oh, Don, don't take me by
the ear. I'll go with you."

"All right," barked Don, kindly. "Come along. Your pen isn't far off,"
and he ran along beside the little pig, who, after many adventures had
wandered back home. Squinty and Don came to the edge of the potato
field.

"Well, I never!" exclaimed the farmer man, who was there hoeing the
potatoes. "If there isn't that comical little pig I sold to that boy
Bob. I wonder where he came from?"

"Bow wow! Bow wow! I found him," barked Don, but of course the farmer
did not understand.

"Well, I'll put you back in the pen again until that boy sends for you,"
said the farmer, as he lifted Squinty over into the pen where his mamma
and papa and brothers and sisters were.

"Why--why, it's Squinty!" cried Mrs. Pig.

"He's come back!" grunted Mr. Pig.

"Oh, I'm so glad!" said Wuff-Wuff.

"And so am I," added Twisty Tail, as she rubbed her nose against
Squinty's. "Where have you been, and what happened to you?" she asked
her brother.

"Oh, many things," he said. "I have learned some tricks, I have been up
in a balloon, I met Slicko the jumping squirrel, Mappo, the merry
monkey, and I saw Tum-Tum, the jolly circus elephant. Now I am home
again."

"And which did you like best of all?" asked Mrs. Pig, when they had
finished asking him questions.

"Getting back home," answered Squinty, as he took a big drink of sour
milk.

And that is the story of Squinty, the comical pig. The farmer sent word
to the boy that his pet was back in the pen, but the boy said he thought
he did not want a pet pig any more, so Squinty, for the time being,
stayed with his family.

STORIES FOR CHILDREN

FROM 5 TO 10 YEARS OLD

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THE KNEETIME ANIMAL STORIES

By Richard Barnum

Large 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated

Price per volume 40 cents Postpaid

In all nursery literature animals have played a conspicuous part; and
the reason is obvious for nothing entertains a child more than the funny
antics of an animal. These stories abound in amusing incidents such as
children adore and the characters are so full of life, so appealing to a