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Show ! ; The Saniman Story I FOR TONIGHT THE GREEDY LITTLE PIG l.lltle l'Ust.r Pig lived In th playroom, play-room, and h eat on the mantel, quite near the front. He wa very hroad and fat and hi mouth wax wide open ' all the time; he always seemed to be I asklnir for more to eut. i little I'laater I'i lived on peniiiex j and dime. He did nut rare for nick- I ela. althouKh he would eat them If! you Inalated. but a quarter he absolutely abso-lutely refused to swallow. The other toy In the room called him Greedy because be never seemed to be satisfied. "He better took out" said Tetldy Bear, "or he will eat too much some day and burst." But all the warning riven to Oreedy was In vain, f.ir he kept his mouth wide open, not even answering anyone who poked fun st him. One day the Little Mistress of the playroom came In with candy In one j hand and In the other she held five j pennies. I "Vou are going to have a nice din-ner, din-ner, nrgle." she said. "I have ten cents and 1 had to promise father I would give you half, so her It is; open your mouth .wide.".. Put Clreedv Pig wns almost fun tben , -and the Little Mlstrraa had to uae hoth handa to feed the pennies to him. tut rrrm mrmrs irrrrt nu -ny TTTrra ; the sweeta she waa eatlnp, so Oreedy Pig's head was sticky, too, when she finally ptiHlied the five pennies down iiia throat, i That nicht when all the house wan ntill a little mouse crept Into the room nnd ran about ta find nome crumbs that miKht have heen dropped on the floor, but the I-lttle M(Mree hnd hern very careful that day and not m crumb wan to he found. IJttle Moune ran tp 'ie frill of the window neat and thn up the aide of the curtain and .lumped on the mantel and his none told him there was something on Greedy I'ig worth eat-incr. eat-incr. .reen TH 4M mt nMW I, title Mouee at all, in fart, it was not quite o'clock nnd he did not notice any-J any-J thine before that hour. Little Moune put hin none on Little i Pig and tanted the sweet that the Lit- tie Mtntrena had left there from her I flnpera. He nibbled and nibbles, and , even ate the brown paint, nnd. not befnir satisfied with that. Little Moune bejran to eiit the planter of whsIi i Oreedy pig; wna made. .lunt then the rloek In the hull struck "2 and Oreedy Pie lietran to take notlre. He f.dt Little M mine's nhnrp teeth and he equenled. nnd thin frightened Little Mmme nearly out of hfn nennea. a fimM nnd knocked Oreedy pip over nnl off the m:tntel. Ife went richt on the fhfor, nnd bin planter njdy broke into a dozen plecen or more. The pennies a nd dimes rolled all about the fkor nl the to n wondered if n cyi lone had nmr Into their fdiiyrofim. Tedriy licfir wan the f !mt to recover re-cover bin se'nwea nnd look about for the reanon of all the disturbance. '"h. It hn hapiened nt Mvt. Jutt un I told him it would." an Id Teil-Iv Itenr, looking look-ing nt the bltn of poor l'iftirie'n bodv on the floor. "Now I hope everyone In here mill take wnrnlnj? nnd never, never be rreedv, for you see the fate of noor Plant r Pig. The next dv he'n tbe IJtt'e Mtn-tretn Mtn-tretn came Into the plnvroorn fhe plr-Ked ii n the pleeee of pt Little Pig's boly, but when she counted all the pennies ard dimei ih lf-in to danee about with d-Purht. "Oh, I hnve a lot." she mid. "Now 1 can buy nil he randv f wnt." So pofir llttte Plnter Pig wan not mourned very much bv itnvone. for he I bad leen no Intent on p tt nif pome-thing pome-thing to e?it he had never mde friends In the plavrooin. but be nerved an a lewnon to other tovs nnd when : any on- of them was tmpted when the Little Mliffe' rive a partv to e:tt too much Teddy Flerir alwnva manneed to whisper. "Himemler the4 Planter Pig1" : fronv-iirt, h - t,A Na- ; T. - c. t-,-., y, .. v, . t , ... t 1 |