MANNERS
One by one the well-mannered children of Mrs. Oswald O. Pigg performed their morning toilets, dipping their little trotters into the shallow tub and nuzzling their pretty pink snouts in the water. “I wonder what’s for breakfast today?” said Curly-tail. “Yesterday I found some splendid tit-bits in the trough.” “And I found something that no well-mannered pig could possibly eat,” said Saidie. “What was that?” queried Spot. “It was bacon,” answered his sister in a low voice.
“Bacon!” echoed Percy and with one accord the little Piggs held up their trotters in horror. “But what is bacon?” asked Pinkears, who always followed the lead of his brothers and sisters and was considered the dunce of the family. “That is a subject on which we have been forbidden to speak,” said Percy. “Breakfast is ready, children,” called Mrs. Pigg, and soon her family sat gathered round an appetising meal.
(To be continued.)
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 May 1927, Page 26 (Supplement)
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