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Title: Squinty the Comical Pig
His Many Adventures

Author: Richard Barnum

Release Date: February 13, 2004 [EBook #11069]

Language: English

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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