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caught two young pigs and was just about to take 

 them out of the trap when a huge wild boar ran out 

 of the underbrush and attacked hini savagely, giv- 

 ing him just time to escape up the nearest tree. And 

 there he had been sitting for hours in a cramped 

 position, hungry, thirsty, and thoroughly tired out. 



Whether it was Henry's appearance on the scene, 

 or whether the boar had made up his mind to leave 

 anyhow, they could not tell; but it was a wonderful 

 relief to William to be safe on the ground once more, 

 and he and Henry took the pigs and hastened home 

 with them as quickly as possible. 



"He almost got my bacon!" William said, as he 

 was relating his experience to Edna. "But that's 

 nothing; a fellow has only one life and he might as 

 well enjoy it. I'm going to catch more pigs." 



William's efforts at trapping were very successful 

 but he kept a sharp lookout for boars. Some of the 

 pigs w^ere put in a pen and fed plentifully with var- 

 ious things from the fields and garden. It was such 

 a delight to watch them eat that all the family took 

 turns at feeding them; while Snowball and the mon- 

 key would even steal food from the table and sneak 

 out to the pen with it. When they found, however, 

 that the pigs liked royal palm nuts better than al- 

 most anything else, they kept picking them until 



