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Updated: October 27, 2026
None of his brothers or sisters was near him, and he could not hear his mamma or papa grunting near the feed trough. "Ha! It wasn't a dream, after all," thought Squinty, a bit sorrowfully. "It's all real I can do tricks, and a boy has me." Every few days after that the boy took Squinty out of his pen, and let him do the rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks.
The trim little garden and half-ruined fountain were well shaded by trees, and the adjoining farmhouse and barn-yard, all Swiss, made a fine playground for the children's summer holiday. The house and its furniture they found "faultlessly neat." There was a near-by common where hoops, rope-jumping, and kites could be enjoyed.
I am going to have another apple, just for jumping a rope," thought Squinty, in delight. You see the little pig imagined the trick was done just to get him to eat the apple. He did not count the rope-jumping part of it at all, though that, really, was what the boy wanted. Once more Bob placed the apple on the ground, on the far side of the rope.