Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-25
CHlLDREN'S CORNER.
DN by's Story.

CHlLDREN'S CORNER.
Baby'x Story.
| From tho Churrhman.
An old mother pig mud four pretty
little white pigs lived in very nice
little house. They had good soft
straw bcd--I mean it was as soft MS
they wanted it it bc-nnl thoy had a
largo shallow trough, into which some
body poured milk for them every day.
They had a little yard, all nicely fenced
round, to play in, and they used to
find apples on the ground sometimes,
and great many other things, which
they liked All the pigs wcro good and
happy, and the little ones grew quito
big, that is, big for the little pigs, and
they played together in their yard.
Que day, wliic they were playing,
ono Of them saw hole i'll the fence,
aud lie put his two fore feet against it,
and put his little nose through to sec
what he could SEQ.
He saw large field of corn growing
up close to the fence, and very small
green pumpkins growing among the
corn, and ever SO many nice kinds of
eatables besides. So he ran squeaking
with delight to his mother, and asked
her to take him and his brothers over
tho fence into the field. His mother
said, oh, no, she could not think
of doing that: they must all
stay III their own place. They had all
they wanted, and if they went into the
field they might not find any straw for
q bed, or any trough OF milk.
And, besides, she could not get
through the fence herself, and. there
fore, they must not CO." So
the little pigs tried to forget all about
it, But little Spy-that WAS the name
OF the ono who looked through the
hole in the fencc-took funny way to
forget. He used to. look through the
hole every day. One day his mother
biting, to punish him for looking
some apples on the ground outside.
As he could not find any in his own
yard, he was just going to tcaze his
field, when she bit his eur. He did
not dare speak to her about it then.
BY and by his mother called him and
the others to 60 in and take their
noon nap. They were all glad to 60, for
the sun was pretty hot in their yard. So
they all went to sleep. Little Spy slept
too, but he woke up very soon, and
thought it was as warm there as in
the yard. He went straight to the hole
in the fence and put up his fore feet,
and put his nose through, and then he
saw little dog looking through the
hole into his yard. The little dog,
barking, said: ''Come over here ami
play with me.'
mo-" squeaked little Spy, "my
mother won't let me 60 over there"
My mother let me come here"
said the little dog, "anl your mother
ought to let you."
The little pig thought his own moth
er very unkind; and at last the little !
dog persuaded him to jump through !
the fence. So, with his feet on the
edge OF the hole, he gave little Jump |
with his hind legs, and through the |
hole he went, head over heels, into the
grass Oh the other side. But he was
not hurt. Then he and the little dog
had race through the field, Spy every
now and then stopping to bite the ten
der corn~stalks, or the little pump
klns. He did ever SO much mischief,
and with their racing and rolling
around among the young vines, they
broke them, so that they wonld not
grow any more. But they did not
know it.
By and by, they went into the flower
garden 4,, and then 4 Spy ate the flowers,
great deal Of mischief there, The
little dog helped, for he chased Spy
and rolled over and over with him on
the flower beds.
The lady in the house looked out
and saw them, and she sent her little
boy with his whip, to drive them
away. But poor Spy did not go the
right way and the boy thought he
must whip him, and poor Spy sqQealed
loud with pain, and only ran more
among the flowers. The garden did
not look we'll at all, after Spy and the
little dog and the boy had been rum
ming over it. At last Spy saw hole in
a fence, and the little boy and the dog
went into the house.
Poor Spy did not know where he was,
nor which way to turn. But he thought
the only way to got home was to run
just as fast as he could.
He did not know that he had gone
upon railroad track but he had.
Pretty soon the cars came along, and
then poor Spy was frightened almost to
death. He ran squealing along the
track. But the train caught up with
him, and the rest is dreadful to tell.
1t ran over poor little Spy, and when
the train had passed, there lay Spy
with all his legs broken. Oh, poor
Spyl He cried bitterly with pain,
and called for his mother to come and
take care Of him but his poor mother
was far off in her little yard, looking
for Spy there, where he would never
b0'again. She could not hear him call
her, and he could not hear her cry for
him.
The conductor on the train sent word
to the gentleman that one of his pigs
was hurt on the railroad, and he took
one Of his workmen with him, and
went to look for 1t. He found poor
Spy, and told the man he was so much
hurt that he must be killed. So the
man carried Spy as gently as he could,
to the barn, and then lie killed him.
Poor Spy's mother never knew what
became OF him but she always thought
he vert through the hole in Lhc fence,
and she told his brothers 50.
But I must tell you what the little
dogs mother said to him. She said:
''Where have you bcen2" Ho said he
had been playing in the garden with
pig. His mother looked frightened,
and asked him how the pig got out Of
the pen. The little dog told her how
he persuaded it to jump out, and that
the pigs mother was Gloss, and would
not let him 60 out before. The mother
dog said: "You have done very
wrong. The rir's mother knows what
is best for her little pig, as your mother
Knows whet is ':;:lt. for you." Then
the mother wa:;c'' with her little dog
through the garden and field, and
pointed out all the mischief that had
been done, and told him he was to
blame for all, for he had persuaded the
pig to disobey its mother. And when
they went into the barn and saw the
pig dead, with all it's legs broken, and
heard the men telling each other that it
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