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Show Fairy Tal&L Bonner ifBr PIGS' AMBITIONS "Grunt, grunt," snld Brother Bncon, "some people are queer. "They are al- J ways worrying about something or other. Now we do not worry. "We do not ay : " 'We w o n d e r what it will do torn to-rn o r r o w and whether It will rain or be line. "We do not plan 1 picnics, and so we do not think ahead, nor do we j plan anything. "A picnic would never go In pig Food It Bliss. Irch for when the children give picnics I hear the different ones saying what they will take to the picnic. "Now fancy a pig wanting tc take along something for someone else! "Hut they worry about so many things people do! They wonder If they are going to pass their examinations examina-tions and If they are going np Into another an-other grade the next year. "What do they want to go up Into another grade for when they were all right In the one they were In? "Do you suppose I'd want to go np Into a higher mud patch when I have such a nice one here? Mercy, no; I'm too Renslhle. "And then people worry for fear someone will not like something they have snld. Why don't they Just grunt and squeal and If no one else like It well, let them go on grunting and squealing and pleasing themselves. "1'eople will fret that maybe they won't he famous later on. "They want to he great and to have others admire them and say to them: " 'My dear young man, or, my dear young woman, or my dear boy or my dear girl, you deserve the great success suc-cess which has come to you, and I, for one, congratulate you.' "I've even heard them making up Imaginary speeches which may be snld to them some day. "They have so much ambition. And then they are always looking ahead. "When they get older they will do so-and-so, or when the summer comes they will have a good time, or next week when there Is to be a party they will enjoy themselves. I'That Is the way they talk. I hear tlJbm ! "Hut though they look down on pigs I think I could give them some good advice. Why don't they follow the examples ex-amples set by pigs? "They'd doubtless be much shocked at such a suggestion. Rut we don't look ahead that la, not unless food Is coming our way. "But we don't look days and weeka and months and even years ahead. "We live In the present. Look at ns, and you will see how free from worry we are! "We're not bothering ourselves over lessons; we're not trying to be great; we're not hoping to be famous or successful suc-cessful or rich or anything! "We're Just pigs, happy, contented, grunting, squealing pigs. "To have our backs scratched Is Joy, and food Is bliss. Why strain after great things almost out of reach? "They say pigs have no ambitions. And It Is true. But we have ambitions In this way: "We are ambitious that no worry should come to us, no bother, no effort ; we're ambitious to lead our nice, lazy, muddy lives In perfect greedy, muddy peace In the barnyard. "You may say that these are not ambitions am-bitions and that we cannot be peaceful and greedy. But we have our own ways and If we do not become as famous or as wise as people do, at least we save ourselves a lot of fretting Right.'" " and worrying " which they do. Grunt, Grunt, and that's the truth."' , "Sqnenl, squeal," said Brother Bacon's Ba-con's mother. "My child Is right, lie Is a wise child, a sensible pig son." |
