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Show Kiddies' Evening Stcry By MARY GRAHAM BONNER . t't 't't'e'e Pigs' Paying "As there U no food about ut the moment," said Grandfather porky, "and as there is nothing very special spe-cial to do, I suggest we play some games. We haven't played any for ever and ever so long, and it might be rather fun. Of course I don't want to play games ofen. I might lose my handsome fat shape and I think my shupe is distinguished. 1 look like the grandfather p!g of the pig pen." "Well, of course it is as well you admire your shape, for no one ?iF6 would, I fear," said Mls Ham. "And," she added, "I don't kno--that all would Alnk It such tn honor to look like the grandfather of the pig pen." "But It makes no difference to me what others think," said Grandfather Grand-father Porky Pig. "In that way," he added, "1 nrn a sensible pig." "Just what do you mean?" asked Miss Ham. "Well, tlKsre are some folks," said Porky Pig. "who are always worrying about what others think of them, and that, to my mind, is so very foolish. "What good does It do? It only hurts one's feelings. I don't allow my feelings to be hurt In that way. Porky Pig Agreed to Be It. If I should stub my toe It would be too bad, but 1 won't let what people say upset me. Gracious, but I'd be a miserable pig if 1 let opinions opin-ions of others annoy me. Just think of the way people do talk o( pigs. But I don't let it bother me, and I'm sure they admire my independence. inde-pendence. I Just go my nice pig way without paying any attention.1' "I'm glad," laughed Miss Ham, In her funny, squealing voice, "but you call It a nice pig way." "It is a pleasure to think that It makes you glad," said Porky Pig. making a low bow. Miss Ham twisted ber little tail more tightly "Cut what games do you want to play, Porky?" she asked. "Well," said Porky, "the children were around the other day and they seemed lo have a very good time playing hide-and-go-seek. I thought maybe it would be nice for us to try the game, and now would L7"''Lto a there is no food I've really slept so much I don't think 1 could even yawn tf I were given a prize for it." 'Well," said Miss Ham, "If that Is the way you feel, I should say you're more in the mood for plaj-ing plaj-ing than you have been for many a day, and than you will be for many a day to come. "Let us ask the other pigs, for I agree with your feelings. "I feel much the same way. "Let us ask them at once and then we'll get up an appetite for our next meal.' It seems strange to think that we need to work up an appetite, as the expression goes. I've heard the children use the expression ex-pression and I've always thought It very absurd." "So have I." said Porky, "but really I understand it. Of course I would eat if food were given to me now, but 1 am not as hungry as I'd like to be." "The way 1 feel." So Miss Ham and Porky Pig j asked the other pigs if they would like to play hide-and-go-seek, and the others said they would. So every one started in to go off hiding hid-ing while Porky Pig agreed to be IT first. He counted up to five hundred, and then grunted loudly: "Coming." Well, he hunted In all the places he could think of, and he couldn't And the pigs. He went behind the shed and looked under the barn and looked behind trees nnd stumps and even dug. up some mud. Still he didn't know what had become be-come of them. They wouldn't really real-ly bury themselves In the mud. He didn't know what to do, when finally final-ly he looked back In the old pen-he pen-he had never thought of looking there, as that was open and without with-out trees, and there they all were. "Why. pigs," he shouted, "aren't yon hiding?" "No," they snld, "we thought we would, but then when we thought of the word 'seek' we began to think how much more fun It would be to go seeking ourselves and to look for food. And so wa didn't bother to hide. "We played the seek part of hlde-and-go-seek, and tbe seek part Id pig games, we decided, meant to seek food." And Porky Pig decided he would Join them, for pigs' playing wai not a great success. Even be wouldn't want to keep It up anj longer I (6, Wuurn NewBpapr Union.) |