Foam—A Razor-Backed Hog 
pigs is the fat porker of the thoroughbred farm. 
The highest is the wild Razor-back, who lives by 
his wits. And soon it was clear that Foam was 
high in his class. He was a very brainy little pig. 
5 \___ But he developed also a sense of humor, and a real 
is | al affection for Lizette. ; 
: OO) Zp At the shrill whistle which her father had taught 
- fe her to make with her fingers in her teeth, he would 
4 y come racing across the garden—that is, he would 
St \ come, unless that happened to be his funny day, 
4 when, out of sheer caprice, he would hide and watch 
the search. 
One day Lizette was blacking her shoes with 
some wonderful French polish that dried quite 
shiny. It happened to be Foam’s day to seek for 
unusual notice. He tumbled the lamb on top of 
the duck, ran three times around Lizette, then 
raised himself on his hind legs and put both front 
feet on the chair beside Lizette’s foot, uttering 
meanwhile a short whining grunt which was his 
way of saying, “Please give me some!” Then 
Lizette responded in an unexpected way: she painted 
his front feet with the French blacking, which 
dried in a minute, and Foam’s pale pinky hoofs 
were made a splendid shining black. The opera- 
tion had been pleasantly ticklesome, and Foam 
blinked his eyes, but did not move till it was over. 
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