Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-06
Observation-Disclosures
pI1nDY PIGG IN A BOAT.


After Percival, the old circus dog,
/ had been, SO kind to DIR. Pigg in the
matter Of jumping into the pond with
the big flrecracker which the bad fox
Il had lighted, the old gentleman guinea
pig said:
81 wish, Percival, you would spend
10 few days with us. I'm afraid that
5ugly tramp fox will come back" T
"Of course WILL" agreed the dog.
Hs.The Bow Vows are going down to
n Asbury Park for the summer and |
q don't much care for the seashore, so
Fiji stay home and spend few days
with you And in case that fox does
come back"
Well. Percival didn't say what he
would do, but land sakes, flopsy dub!
\ oh me, and a potato pancake! You
should have seen him show his teeth
and growl.
Well. it was a few days after Per
scival had come to pay little, visit
ito the Pigg family that something
happened to Buddy, and I'm going to
ten you about it. -.. .:.... Re-. a.
You see, it had been raining pretty
hard for week or more-yes, nearly
two weeks, and it didn't seem as, if it
was ever going to stop. There had
been thunder showers and lightning
SHOWERS and hail showers and just
I plain rain showers, and they were all
more or less wet; and when it did
ga4nally stop raining there was lot Of
water all over
One day, the first day. in fact, after
III stopped raining, Buddy was taking
~ walk, and glad enough he was to be
out OF the pen He strolled along, let
ting the warm sun and the gentle
wind dry his black and white fur, and
he was thinking of, oh! ever so many
taSngs, when, all at once, he came to
nv little pond; only this time it was
" great big pond, because it had so
much water in it. And on the shore
ssof the pond was boat that some
boys had been playing with.
ttOh. fine!' cried Buddy Pigg. "Pll
ret In and make believe I'm sailor,
Just as Billie and Johnnie Bushytail
and Jennie Chipmunk did once. I've
always wanted a ride in boat and
9now's my chance!"
So he climbed into the boat and he
made believe he was sailing away off
80 China, where they make firecrack-
sO1HI 8uu A0AS, duO IACA WAO4 ACl =" oo
half way there (make believe, you
know, why, he turned around and
sailed for India, where it's very hot;
but all this while the boat was partly
ON the bank and partly in the water,
and Buddy only rocked it from side
TO side, pretending 1t was moving.
Well, after he reached India what
"a he do but find it so hot there that
Ne turned around at once and sailed
for the north pole, so he could be nice
and cool.
Then, all at once, as quickly as you
can eat an Ice cream cone on hot
day, IL something didn't happen. Bud
NV looked up, after reaching the north
pole, and he found that the boat was
sadrift, floating off across the big pond,
with the wind blowing it faster, and
faster, and faster.
AT first Buddy thought it was fun
then. as he saw that he was getting
farther and farther from shore, he
became frightened. He looked for
Isomething with which to send the
boat back to land, but there was no
sail in it, and no oars; and, If there
had been, the little guinea pig boy
couldn't have used them, don't sup.
pose. Well, there he was, really sail.
Ing of to some unknown country this
time. in earnest and not make believe.
Help! Help! Help" and who
should come running down to the