Potter, Miriam Clark, 1886-1965, Balcom, Sophia T · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 160
ERFECT LITTLE PIG T HE mother pig looked proudly at her sevenchildren, who were running around in the pen.One of them, Curly- tail, was the busiest ofthem all. Whenever hesaw something good toeat, he would rush for it,nosing his brothers andsisters out of the way sothat they could not getany. He… … His mother watched himproudly. 147 THE PINAFORE POCKET STORY BOOK They all trotted around in the muddy pen, andafter a while the mother pig thought to herself: It is time that stingy farmers boy came with ourdinner. He never gives us enough. This was not true, for they always had a greatdeal to…
Children's poetry, American
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