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“Why don’t you make animals as well as people out of fruits and
vegetables, children?” said papa one day.
Why hadn’t they to be sure? They had never thought of such a thing, but
when they did it was not long before the place was stocked with all
sorts of strange animals.
The first piece of vegetable live stock the little Wests owned was a
lemon pig which Uncle John made for them from a lemon, two white headed
pins, and four matches.
With a knife a small gash was cut for a mouth; then ears were cut from
the skin. These were left fastened to the lemon at the front edge.
Then pigs must have pens! So pens naturally followed—pens of corn cobs
put together in rail fence fashion.
Later in the season there were acorn pigs in pens made of sticks and
straws.
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[Illustration: LEMON PIGS]