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Um!" exclaimed Buddy Pigg, and he laid down the packages of candy, nuts, cakes and other things he had carried home from the Littletails' party, so that he might smell the better. "What is it?" asked Brighteyes Pigg. "What's in the box?" "I don't know," replied her brother, "but whatever it is, it smells the nicest of anything I ever smelled.
She was a little late for school, but she was hurrying all she could. She called “good morning” to Grandpa Croaker, and he tossed her up a sugar cookie that he happened to have in his pocket. Wasn’t he the nice old Grandpa, though? Well, I just guess he was! So he went on a little farther, and pretty soon he came to the place where Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg lived.
It was as hot, in fact, as some of the days we have had around here lately, and when Brighteyes, the little guinea pig girl, saw the yellow sun beaming down as she looked out of the pen in the morning, she said to her papa: "Now, be very careful not to get overheated to-day, daddy, dear." "I will," replied Dr. Pigg.
Getting up quite early one morning, Buddy Pigg washed himself very carefully, so that his black and white fur was fairly shining in the sunlight, and then the little guinea pig started off to take a stroll before breakfast. "Who knows," he said, "perhaps I may meet with an adventure; or else find a cabbage, just as I did the other day. But if I do, I'm not going to get inside it and go to sleep.
Pigg know what it was, but Buddy's mother and sister thought it was quite a pretty ornament, and Mrs. Pigg put it on the parlor mantle, where company could see it. Well, one day, not long after this, Dr. Pigg was home all alone, for his wife and the children had gone to a moving-picture show.
Now in case you don't burn yourself with a firecracker and lose your penny down a hole in the sidewalk, I'm going to tell you in the next story about Buddy and Brighteyes' Fourth of July. One day, when Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg were playing out in front of their pen, Buddy suddenly exclaimed: "Why, just think of it! Day after to-morrow is Fourth of July, Brighteyes. Won't we have lots of fun?"
"Hello, Buddy!" called Sammie Littletail, the rabbit boy, to Buddy Pigg one fine day, "come on out, and we'll have a game of ball," and Sammie tossed his ball high up in the air and caught it in his catching glove, as easily as you can eat two ice cream cones, a vanilla and a chocolate one, on a hot day. "Why, we two can't play ball alone," objected Buddy. "It needs three, anyhow."
Is Buddy going with you?" "No, he has gone off to play ball again. I guess he thinks the fish hawk will catch up the ball once more and help him to make a home run. No, I'm not going with Buddy. I thought I'd go over and see Sister Sallie, I haven't called on her in some time." "Very well," said Mrs. Pigg, and Dr. Pigg called to his little girl: "Give my regards to Mr.
An' p'raps we shall go to the bottom, all along o' our 'aving lost our ole bit o' tin. It's a orful thing to think of, ain't it?" said Cap'n Pigg solemnly. The mate appeared to be in a brown study. Then, as though he had suddenly been inspired, he exclaimed: "What about the grammarphone, Skipper?" Even in the midst of his perturbation, Cap'n Pigg looked askance at mention of the hated instrument.
"Oh, I'm caught fast!" cried the poor little creature, and she rolled around and around on the ground, thinking that would help some, but it didn't. Then she heard some one coming along through the woods, and she called out: "Who's there? Please help me out of this can!" "I'm Johnnie Bushytail," answered a voice. "Who are you?" "I'm Brighteyes Pigg," she said. "Please help me."
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