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A little later Farmer Green found something more outside the piggery. In the loose dirt he discovered bear tracks! "Aha!" he cried to his son Johnnie. "Look here! We had a visitor last night. It was no wonder old Spot woke us all up. A bear called on us! And he'd certainly have had that pig if Spot hadn't scared him off." Naturally the news soon spread all over the farmyard. And when Mrs.
For one thing, he knew well enough that there was a punishing waiting for him at the piggery if he ever went back to get it. Not until Johnnie Green and old dog Spot came to the pasture to drive the cows down the lane did Grunty Pig begin to feel the least twinge of homesickness. And even then he tried to forget it.
To the right was the great hall, with the kitchens and storehouses. Across the inner side stood the women's house, with the herb-garden on one hand, and the guest-chambers on the other. To the left were the stables, the piggery, the sheep-houses, the cow-sheds, and the smithies. No sooner had they passed the gates than a second avalanche of greetings fell upon them.
"You'll see a queer place; the piggery that old fellow lives in! You didn't know Faversham I think you said before that day of the accident?" He looked down on her from the saddle. "Not the least. I feel a horrid pang sometimes that I didn't warn him of that hill!" "Any decent bike ought to have managed that hill all right," said Tatham scornfully.
You probably have some millions of germs up your sleeve now, or, more likely, on your back, and I wouldn't let you go into my hog pen for a $2000 note. I'm so well quarantined that I don't much fear contagion; but there's always danger from infected dust. The wind blows it about, and any mote may be an automobile for a whole colony of bacteria, which may decide to picnic in my piggery.
And he called out in as brave a voice as he could muster, "Here I am, just outside the piggery! Won't somebody please let me in?" He called in vain. At last he fell asleep, for he was about as tired as any little pig could be. In the middle of the night Grunty Pig awoke with a start. Somebody said "Woof!" And somebody came sniffing and snuffing around the corner of the piggery.
They won't appear in the expense account again, at least, not for many years, and they give me a sense of security that is mighty comforting." "But what if Anderson sets fire to your piggery, or lightning strikes your granary, how about the expense account then?" "What do you suppose fire insurance policies are for? To paper the wall?
It was a joyful meeting for Grunty Pig. "What's this?" Farmer Green exclaimed, when he went to unlock the piggery in the morning and found Grunty Pig lying up against the door. "Did you get locked out last night? Was it you that old Spot was barking at?" Grunty Pig didn't dare answer. When Farmer Green dropped him into the pen he said nothing to anybody not even "Good morning!"
Then it was a dirty, unwholesome barn, overrun with vermin; now it was worse than a piggery. The aspect touched a tender chord in this man who had been the cause of making the Emperor's compulsory sojourn a sorrowful agony.
"I think I shall go and bathe," said Anne. "It's so hot." The opportunity had passed. Mr. Wimbush had taken them to see the sights of the Home Farm, and now they were standing, all six of them Henry Wimbush, Mr. Scogan, Denis, Gombauld, Anne, and Mary by the low wall of the piggery, looking into one of the styes. "This is a good sow," said Henry Wimbush. "She had a litter of fourteen. "Fourteen?"
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