The Ordway new era., 1918-11-29
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~ MARY GPAHAM BONNER
TALK IN THE PIG PEN.

| i he plRS were RTuiitiiiE hliu siueha-
ing as hard as they could for they
were very much excited.
Can 1t be truef' squealed Grand
father Porky Pig, wiggling his little
crooked tail. which he finally left in n
most peculiar knot.
"Its true If say 1t is" said Brother
Bacon, one of the Pig grandchildren.
"Now there, there, don't be rude to
grandpa" said Mrs. Pinky Pig, the
mother of Pinky Pig and Master Pink
Pig.
"why do you mind If he's rudc?"
asked Sammy Sausage. You admire
him when he gets anything away from
Grandfather Porky-thut is anything
that is good to eat"
"Ah," squealed Mrs. Pinky. raising
her eyes in happy expression as she
thought of things to eat, "ah," she re-
peated, "that is very different. i nd-
mire any pig who can get anything to
eat away from another pig. But most
of all admire myself when get any
thing away from some Of you young
upstarts."
II admire other pigs MS you do
said her cousin, Miss Ham. "nnd, too.
like you. admire myself most of all
when ! can grab some delicious bit
from another grnsping pig
~ am glad to hear you say another
grasping pig" said Pinky Pig. THAT
shows you are well aware of the fact
that you are n grasping pig yourself.
Miss Ham,"
"ro be sure, to be sure" said Miss
Ham. ~ wouldn't be n real pig If
didn't try to get everything to eat for
myself and am real pig. My name
is "A good pig num" too; it's an nris-
tocrntic name. There is nothing or
dinnry about me. No. indeed i am
Miss Ham of the famous Pig family
famous for centuries and centuries for
their grecdiness-the clever dears.
"Greediness isn't supposed to be
clever" said Brother Bacon. but Mt
the same time l am in favor of II"
what do you mean by centuries
and centuriesp" asked Master Pink Pig.
HAS 1t anything to do with food? Is
1t something to ent by any chnnceF
Now Master Pink Pig was very young
and he didn't know the meaning of
anything but hunger. He always was
hungry. No matter how much he nte
he always wanted to ent more.
mo, Master Pink Pig" said Miss
Ham, Centuries mean hundreds of
years, and years mean a great. long
time. What / meant to say was that
there had been pigs in the world for so
long n time / can hardly tell myself
how long! In fact, | couldn't think
back that long, for I'm not good mt
arithmetic. Pigs aren't especially
good at lessons. We're too lazy. And
why should we study? For no special
reason, l say"
There are pigs who are being
taught TO keep clean" snid Brother Ba-
con.
Yes" agreed Sammy Sausage, I've
heard nbout thar, too. They say there
is no reason why pigs shouldn't be
clean. and so they're trying to bring
them up like little boys and girls, maxi
ing them have clean faces-eXtremely
foolish things, and nice, neat feet
utterly absurd. They say that pigs
simply need to be taught, and so l
suppose they are having sort of
school for them. Tn glad don't have
to go to it,"
so are al OF us, sQueaitu hIi the
pigs in the pig pen nnd those who
were wandering around IA great muddy
patch.
"Ah." said Grandfather Porky Pig.
at was never like that in my day.
They never talked of schools for pigs
or of keeping clean. All. me- all, my /;
oh. mercy, gracious sakcs! The pigs
of this day aren't like the pigs of my
day.
"A regular grandfatherly speech"
said Sammy Sausage.
"But we are like you, grandfather"
squealed Brother Bacon.
Don't you want to go to schoolT'
asked Grandfather Porky.
mo, indeed" said the pigs in the pig
pen.
''Then you all do take after your
old Grandfather Porky and are pigs
after his old pig heart. That's fine,
simply fine. Let's give party to cele-
brate 1t and every pig in the pig pen
will try to make as much of n pig of
himself us possible. The one who
does the best in this way will receive
prize"
"A splendid idea," squealed all the
pigs.
wen have 1t soon, never fear"
said Grandfather Porky. "And I'll
give the prize-unless l decide to eat
1t myselfr'