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He went into the house and presently came back 

 with a kettle of warm swill, which he poured into a 

 trough in one corner of the sty. 



What a scrambling and squealing there was then! 

 In their haste the pigs fairly tumbled over one 

 another, and one greedy little beast fell right into 

 the trough! Sorry looking he was indeed as he 

 waddled out. 



Miss Clare noticed that Grandfather kept his sty 

 very clean. There was a bundle of straw in one 

 corner for the pigs to sleep on; the troughs he 

 scrubbed out with an old broom, and the water was 

 fresh and clean. She complimented the old man 

 on his neatness, thanked him for the pleasure he 

 had given them all, and then sent the little people 

 home to their dinners. 



When school opened the next morning there was 

 a pig sty on the blackboard and a whole family 

 of pigs, "looking just like the truly ones," Tom 

 said. 



The children found that a pig is not a hard animal 

 to draw, so they reproduced the picture and cut 

 out some hektographed pictures to add to their 

 farm-yard collection. Some of these they colored 



