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THE PIGGIES AND THE PUMPKIN "Well, well!" exclaimed Mrs. Twistytail, the pig lady, as she went to the cupboard and looked in. "Whoever would have believed it?" "Believed what, mamma?" asked Pinky, the little baby pig, who had been in the hospital, but who was now much better. "Why, there isn't a bit of bread for supper!" went on Mrs. Twistytail. "And your papa will come home from the office so hungry as never was! Oh, my!

PIGGY BOYS AT SCHOOL One day Curly, the little pig who had such a funny shaped tail, said to his brother, Flop Ear: "Say, let's run off and look for adventures as Uncle Wiggily, the old gentleman rabbit, used to do!" "Where shall we run?" asked Flop. "Oh, almost anywhere," answered Curly.

FLOPPY GETS HIS NAME One day, oh, I guess it must have been about a week after Curly Twistytail, the little pig boy, had the adventure with the bear, and his brother rescued him, as I told you in the story before this one,—one day Curly's brother, who hadn't any name as yet, said: "Oh, Curly, let's go out for another walk, and maybe something will happen to us." "All right," agreed Curly, "only I hope a bear doesn't happen.

CURLY TWISTYTAIL IS NAMED Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, in the days when there were fairies and giants and all things like that, there lived in a little house, on the edge of a wood, a family of pigs. Now these pigs weren't like the pigs, which perhaps you children have seen on most farms. No, indeed! They were just the nicest cleanest, sweetest pigs you ever dreamed of—not that pigs on a farm can't be clean, if they want to, but, somehow or other, no one seems to have time to see that they are clean.