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Show RsSP Daddy's - Eveiii Fdiry Tale gy TGRAHAM .BOWER GLORIOUS MUD "Don't you ever care to swim?" Mrs. Duck asked the pigs in the barnyard. barn-yard. "We can wallow, wallow In the mud as fine a thing as swimming any day," said Miss Ham. "Well," said Mrs. Duck, "of course I am superior and clean. I have some interesting relations, too. "My cousin, Mrs. Paradise Sheldrake, Shel-drake, is a very fine creature. She is halfway between a duck and a goose." "Why doesn't she go to one or the other?" inquired Pinky Pig. "Did I ever hear of such stupidity In all my duck life," said Mrs. Duck, quacking as hard as she could. "I didn't mean she was half way between a certain goose and duck in distance. I meant she herself was half like a duck, and half like a goose. "They say It's nothing fine at all to be a goose," said Pinky Pig. "Ah, but she Is only half a goose," said Mrs. Duck. "Then," said Pinky, squealing pleasantly, "she Is only balf stupid. "That makes It a trifle better I presume." pre-sume." All the pigs thought this was a good Joke, but Mrs. Duck paid no attention to this remark. Instead she said. "And she is far more handsome than her husband, Mr. Paradise Sheldrake." Shel-drake." "Well," said Miss Ham, "as I am for females second, tnj-self first and other pigs third I am glad to hear nnf& "I Am Superior and Clean." that she is more handsome than her husband." "Handsome Is as handsome does," said Brother Bacon. "What does that mean, young pig?' asked Miss Ham. "It means that it doesn't matter what you look like as long as your actions are handsome or beautiful or noble. "That is what I mean, handsome In my actions." ."How do you arrive at that way of thinking?" quacked Mrs. Duck. "I eat so well that I am a handsome, hand-some, perfect eater," said Brother Bacon. "You don't know the meaning of that saying," quacked Mrs. Duck. "You would be handsome In your actions if you gave food to others." "Nonsense," said Brother Bacon, "I would be an idiot if I did that." "An idiot according to a pig's point of view, perhaps," quacked Mrs. Duck. "The point of view most sensible for me to have," said Brother Bacon, grunting. "Oh, well, it's not a barnyard of creatures longing for a nice springtime spring-time bath, or for any kind for that matter," said Mrs. Duck, "so I'll be off by myself." And alone she walked to the pond, while the pigs said: "Let's hie us to the mud, the delicious, de-licious, glorious, spring mud ! For we are pigs, not ducks, sensible mud-loving, mud-loving, food-loving pigs !" |
