The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-12
Five Adventurous Pigc

It happened, somehow. that no one was there to dispute their entrance. And how should they ever guess that they would not be as welcome here as they had been at the pigpen where they had spent the previous night? Delighted with the hallway. they wandered into the drawing room. where many candles were ablaze with lights and many mirrors reflected so many apparently real and live pigs that Mother Pig was filled with joy and squealed friendly How do you doI This is as unexpected as it is de-
 Still not a human being in sight! And the reason was that "a family wedding was going on in neighbor- ing church, taking al of the house. hold away except the butler and the cook, who just at that moment were ous at the back sharing some wedding cake with the cook next door.
 Peggy and Eliza could only murmur faint Wee! weei weei'--they were so dazzled by what they saw; but Billy and Jacky. without stopping. to oh and ahi disappeared at once through an open doorway to explore the rest of the house.
 An at once there was squeai of de- light, followed by another.
 ssomething interestingf. exclaimed
 And, hurrying helter-skelter out of lllC QFdWAnE EOuLls they IQllOW0Q4 the direction of the squeals they had heard, finding Billy and Jacky at last in front of huge thing with black and white teeth and stool.
 ed the teeth. then shrieked with min gied terror and delight at the flood of sounds that came from them. Ct was a piano, you understand.)
 Then what did venturesome Billy do but chamber up on the stool whence he found he could easily reach the teeth with his sturdy forefeet.s And what sounds he produced from them And what thrills went through Mother Pig and the other three children, fairly intoxicating them so that before they knew it they were circling and pirouet- ting about on the floor in sort Of waltz.
 And not one of them in the least dreamed of Interruption, till of sud den, like a clap of thunder, came the exclamation. My gracious! What ave we 'ere?" from the doorway.
 There was the butler. arnazepent written all over his stupid English facei
 Mother Pig set up shriek of terror and rolled of the sofa where she had thrown herself down to recover breath. pitifu1 heap on the floor. while poor Jacky, tunbling panic-stric1en rom off the stool. caught a leg between the pedals and broke it. alas ,.. roared the butler, waving his arms. about in d very threatening manner Now, if Mother Pig had only Known tt, Mir. Butler would not. for the world have, touched her, lest De should soil bis. inn maculate livery which had been donned especially for the wedding reception to follow the ceremony at the church. sS
 But not knowing it. and being in frenzy of fright, she let forth an ear splitting, sQueal and bolted past the ap- palling butler to, the open front door, Close at her heels flew Peggy, pumping against thu butler who, in his preclpi> tate retreat, stumbled over squealing
 By the time he had recovered his wits all the pigs were gone--ail, that is, ex- cept poor, crippled Jacky.
 butler! tse's a cunninn ioolSin' beast. so e isl And, poor. thing, is leg, is broket'' (For he was a soft-hearted fellow.),
 And, procuring large newspaper, he wrapped it about Jacky and picking him up bodily, carried him squealing to the basement. And there he nursed the broken leg So that it would do to limp about on, at least. And then, being such a soft-hearted fellow. h9 told his master about Jacky, and got him to send the little fellow to his country place, where Jacky may be seen any day alive and well.
 The rest of the family. sad to say. did not share Jacky's good fortune. AL though in the darkness they got sep- arated, by morning. they found them selves united-in the Poundi
 But their days in the Pound were few in number and full of apprehensions. Sure enough, they disappeared one morning. and the cats told the dogs they heard the men say, '"Those pigs are all sausage meat now!