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             SQUINTY
         THE COMICAL PIG

       HIS MANY ADVENTURES

               BY
         RICHARD BARNUM

Author of "Slicko, the Jumping Squirrel,"
     "Mappo, the Merry Monkey,"
   "Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant,"
     "Don, a Runaway Dog," etc.

         ILLUSTRATED BY
        HARRIET H. TOOKER




KNEETIME ANIMAL STORIES

By Richard Barnum

  SQUINTY, THE COMICAL PIG
  SLICKO, THE JUMPING SQUIRREL
  MAPPO, THE MERRY MONKEY
  TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT
  DON, A RUNAWAY DOG

Large 12mo. Illustrated. Price per volume
40 cents, postpaid



1915

  

_Squinty, the Comical Pig_




CONTENTS

CHAPTER

   I  SQUINTY AND THE DOG

  II  SQUINTY RUNS AWAY

 III  SQUINTY IS LOST

  IV  SQUINTY GETS HOME

   V  SQUINTY AND THE BOY

  VI  SQUINTY ON A JOURNEY

 VII  SQUINTY LEARNS A TRICK

VIII  SQUINTY IN THE WOODS

  IX  SQUINTY'S BALLOON RIDE

   X  SQUINTY AND THE SQUIRREL

  XI  SQUINTY AND THE MERRY MONKEY

 XII  SQUINTY GETS HOME AGAIN


ILLUSTRATIONS

Squinty looked at the beautiful wagons, and at the strange animals

Squinty saw rushing toward him, Don, the big black and white dog

"Hop on," he said to the toad. "I won't bother you."

"Oh, Father!" exclaimed the boy, "do let me have just one little pig"

Squinty gave a little spring, and over the rope he went

The next moment Squinty felt himself lifted off the ground

"Why, I am Mappo, the merry monkey," was the answer




SQUINTY, THE COMICAL PIG


CHAPTER I


SQUINTY AND THE DOG

Squinty was a little pig. You could tell he was a pig just as soon as
you looked at him, because he had the cutest little curly tail, as
though it wanted to tie itself into a bow, but was not quite sure
whether that was the right thing to do. And Squinty had a skin that was
as pink, under his white, hairy bristles, as a baby's toes.

Also Squinty had the oddest nose! It was just like a rubber ball,
flattened out, and when Squinty moved his nose up and down, or sideways,
as he did when he smelled the nice sour milk the farmer was bringing for
the pigs' dinner, why, when Squinty did that with his nose, it just made
you want to laugh right out loud.

But the funniest part of Squinty was his eyes, or, rather, one eye. And
that eye squinted just as well as any eye ever squinted. Somehow or
other, I don't just know why exactly, or I would tell you, the lid of
one of Squinty's eyes was heavier than the other. That eye opened only
half way, and when Squinty looked up at you from the pen, where he lived
with his mother and father and little brothers and sisters, why there
was such a comical look on Squinty's face that you wanted to laugh right
out loud again.

In fact, lots of boys and girls, when they came to look at Squinty in
his pen, could not help laughing when he peered up at them, with one eye
widely open, and the other half shut.

"Oh, what a comical pig!" the boys and girls would cry. "What is his
name?"

"Oh, I guess we'll call him Squinty," the farmer said; and so Squinty
was named.

Perhaps if his mother had had her way about it she would have given
Squinty another name, as she did his brothers and sisters. In fact she
did name all of them except Squinty.

One of the little pigs was named Wuff-Wuff, another Curly Tail, another
Squealer, another Wee-Wee, and another Puff-Ball. There were seven pigs
in all, and Squinty was the last one, so you see he came from quite a
large family. When his mother had named six of her little pigs she