|We have nine little pigs. One is all white. One is light brown. The
rest are spotted. These nine pigs live in a pen. It is in a yard near
the barn. The pigs like to run in the yard. They turn up the soft dirt
with their noses.
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One day they made a hole under the fence. Piggy White got out of the
yard first. The little brown pig came out next. Then all the spotted
ones came out. Piggy White stopped to look around him. "Wee! wee! what
a big world this is!" he said. Then all the other little pigs said "Wee!
wee!" just like Piggy White.
Piggy White was larger than any of the others; so of course he knew all
about it."
"Where shall we go?" said the little brown pig.
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"Let us go up the hill," said a spotted one. The other little pigs said
"Wee! wee!" again. That is the way they said yes.
So they started up the hill. It was a very small hill; but the pigs
said, "What a large hill this is!" They were only baby pigs, you know.
This was their first walk, out of their yard. By and by they came to
the top of the hill. They saw a large house in a large yard "What a big
pen!" said all the little pigs. "Do you think we shall find more pigs
there?" said the brown pig. "Wee! wee!" said the others. You see, a pig
thinks the whole world was made for pigs. Some one had left the gate
open. The nine pigs went into the yard, one after another. No one was in
sight, so they went on. They were still looking for pigs.
Before they got to the door, the cook came out. The pigs gave her one
look. "That is no pig," said Piggy White.
Then they all ran back to their pen. But they knew more than when they
left it. They had seen the world, and they had found that there are more
than pigs in it.
--S. E. SPRAGUE.
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