once upon a time in a certain little town on a street that had beautiful proper trees growing along each side of it was a nice little house johnny who had brown eyes ears that stood out a little like this that turned up slightly that always had a happy smile i said the mouth always had a happy smile that's better as well as having it of course arms and legs and a body just like other little boys and when they were all put together johnny looked like this well now that you know what johnny looks like i know you want to hear about a very particular thing that happened to him one day the sun was peeping in his window and was getting ready to wake him up but look that son he looks a bit disgusted at what he sees in johnny's room and no wonder we didn't want to tell you this but johnny is a terribly untidy little boy did you ever see such an untidy room his mother asked him so many times to hang up his clothes and put away his ties and like all little boys he had a good cell who told him the right things to do and he knew he should hang up his pajamas but like most little boys johnny also had a bad self and i don't know why but johnny seemed to prefer to listen to this bad self who told him down to your pajamas on a car and that that self one too bad now of course the bathrooms nice and cool an untidy johnny's mother keeps it that way as johnny helper well not exactly johnny like but it is good self tells him he knows he doesn't have to have fun that way that makes his mother very unhappy and good self might have won worse and worse if you don't mend your ways you'll turn into a pig for sure just as your mother said i think snorted johnny don't be silly but even as he hurried off to breakfast his hands and feet became little pigs proverbs and the good self knew this was bound to happen he was very sad to see such a nice little boy making such a pig of themselves of course bad self was just tickled pink another one over on him as johnny rushed into breakfast he had no idea that his hands and feet were you know what but then why should he but the table manners like this his mother of course was most unhappy to see him slurp and spill his food this way but johnny paid no attention to what she said he thought he was a regular fellow he had the mistaken idea that being neat and well mannered was like being a ceci that was why when his good self popped up to remind him that all this bad behavior was going to lead nowhere johnny gave him an argument said johnny and of course no polite little  says just that way i don't want to be polite i want to be a ball player or a soldier well you won't be either ones that good self you'll just be a pain let's pick business is beginning to worry johnny seemed to appeal to johnny and he continued to eat as rudely as ever be careful say good you're going too far that bad so john your boss around here then johnny licked his plate and wiped his mouth with his sleeve he's getting to be more and more of the pig murmured goodsell that's of course was just what bad self wanted a new you could get johnny into even worse trouble if he could just get good south out of the way look out too late as soon as johnny got outside the house he ran as fast as he could to the baseball field and as he approached the field he saw the game and already started this made him very angry because his bad manners and his rudeness had quite naturally made him also a very selfish diddle boy give me that ba he said to tommy i want to bat first the other boys could hardly believe that one of their friends could be such a bad sport and such a bully don't be a pig they called even your friends think you're a pig said good ran touch first base and rushed on the ball was thrown and a bellyful caught it on second base you're out shouted billie and johnnie was out by a mile but johnny didn't like that he didn't want to be out i'm not out i'm not out he belly or billy just blank anybody could see the johnny was out by a mile billy started to explain it but he just got pushed around for his trouble a lot was more than the other boys could stand they were all good sports and like all regular fellows they couldn't stand a bully or someone who wanted his own way all the time they told johnny he was a big bully you're nothing but a pig they said naturally they wouldn't have anything more to do with would you said johnny they all say i'm a pig they're crazy that's what johnny said but do you think they were crazy dad's laughed and laughed as he saw what he'd done to johnny good self decided it was time to do something about it as for johnny he began to feel pretty unhappy all his friends had left him and he had that empty feeling that everyone gets when they have been terribly selfish there is nothing for him to do but go home on his way past the farm yard where there was some little pigs he couldn't stand the sight of them he hurried on his way he had no idea of course the pigs were following him until they said right behind him to you said johnny to the pigs gone gone home the little pigs just stood there and smiled at him they thought this was fun they had never seen a play with clothes on johnny was pretty worried by this time so he started to run the pigs ran right behind him so he ran faster and the faster johnny ran the faster the pigs ran so johnny ran still faster he never run so fast before puffing and blowing he arrived at last at his home swung in the gate and slammed it shut only then did he feel safe from those terrifying little pigs in the garden ethe on his little dog rover lying asleep under a bush waiting for him johnny smiled again but his friends call him a pig let them walk away from him rover was a trooper and rover wouldn't let him down what is that funny looking thing that sounds like johnny robert decided he didn't know what whatever it was he didn't like it he ran like a flash with powers of dismay spread like a rocket to up the bushes and disappeared cautiously stand everything else but this was too much he would have to find his mother when she ran away from him he'd been very rude and very disobedient as he'd better see his mother on the way through the hall johnny passed the mirror who was that who's that funny looking creature he looked at it this way he looked at it that way and he looked at the other way it's me turned into a pig because you preferred to act like one but i didn't want to be a pig that johnny i just don't want to be your so that's it is mother said you're afraid of being a i'll just let me show you something and she turned on the movie projector do you know who those men are as johnny's mother sure they're west point cadets answered johnny that's right and see how smart they march notice how clean and well kept their uniforms are you think their senses well know johnny agreed they couldn't be sissies then said his mother of the future generals of the united states can keep clean you should do johnny thought about that an agreed it was probably but he added if i had a uniform like that and were a west point cadet i would naturally keep myself clean said his mother things like that just don't happen these young men earn the right to be cadets by being clean and well mannered first you can change from being dirty and bad mannered into being clean and well mannered all of a sudden you can't johnny seemed worried well said his mother you made up your mind to try very hard perhaps you could in the academy in the barracks rooms where they live the cadets study hard and practice being orderly clean and tidy these young men know that without good manners they will never be good officers and it's the same thing at annapolis but uncle sam trains his naval officers nobody leans on the table or slopes food here 's the navy football squad but good manners are not forgotten on the playing field the men learned to tackle hard to tackle fairly and how to kick and how to develop their muscles but they also learn that while it is important to win it doesn't matter if they lose as long as they've played their best you can lose with a smile watch this man's score and remember that good sportsmanship is something that everyone admires and good sportsmanship is acting to others the way you would like them to act do you remember johnny if you want to play ball like this and get a chair like this play fair play for the team and never never act like a oh boy said johnny that was a wonderful movie now i know exactly what to do well said his mother now's the time to begin then because once you've made up your mind to do something you must act immediately as johnny rushed away you could see that he felt better already ran up the stairs as fast as he could his room no wonder i turned into a pig he said as he look around quickly gathered up all his clothes he left scattered around and hung up neatly in his closet just as he'd seen the cadets do that he picked up and put away his toys in the toy box on the way out he paused at the door to see if everything was ship i'm turning into a little boy again and he was so encouraged that he hurried even faster to get on with the job in the bathroom he hung up each tile in its place put everything back where it belonged and sciri even put the cap back on th toothpaste yes sir said johnny i must admit that certainly is an improvement so he thought it was time to see if he showed any improvement and sure enough he could see a lot of changes for the better now nothing could stop him i thought i couldn't become a cadet or a midshipman all of a sudden he wondered why i hadn't realized that before at lunch time johnny sat up straight at the table as he'd been taught to do range his napkin properly and instead of reaching for the food asked his mother to pass it for him this time there was no slipping or spilling or splashing of food johnny was eating like a little gentleman and proud of the fact that he knew how to do so johnny said good south popping up again you look more and more like yourself johnny grant has a wife his mouth with a napkin just remember continued good stout that any drip can be a pig it takes a smart guy not to the one roger said and what do you know anywhere and he dropped bad self into the sugar bowl good for you cried good self as johnny excused himself and left the table and just in case bad sal should cause any more trouble he jumped on the lid and sat on it well so good self thinks care of that and it certainly seemed to when johnny arrives at the ball game the boys are not a bit pleased to see him hi fellows but the fellows hardly said a word the boys expected trouble but johnny went over the little tommy and said here use my new bat that he went over to jimmy and said here try my new mitt what do you make of it ted asked bobby i don't know answered bobby but if he wants to play fair as the game got going the boys were more than glad to have johnny playing with them he was always on the job and he played for the team but when it came johnny's turn and that ever the excitement ran through all of boys so far johnny been a good sport bases and as he passed third base the ball was feeling the feel or fumble with it for a moment then threw it in the homebase and johnny in the ball seemed to arrive at the same moment you're out shot a jimmy in great excitement and this time the boys were ready in case johnny put up another argument that they didn't know i knew johnny shanks and johnny did jimmie i was a good catch i thought i was safe but i was too busy running to see if you say i'm out i'm out that's the kind of sportsmanship the boys like to see and they were so happy to see johnnie a good knew you'd do it then jonny gomes fast as he could go leaped over the garden fence and found rover waiting for him good ole rover was overjoyed after looking like a man and grinning is only a dog can gran follow johnny as he'd always done mother mother called johnny as he came bounding into the house what is it she said i just want to tell you johnny that