Squinty the Comical Pig: His Many Adventures

by Richard Barnum

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 1915

CONTENTS [illustrations]
[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 [contents]
[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] [Squinty looked at the beautiful wagons, and at the strange animals] ["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.