Curly and Floppy Twistytail

Curly and Floppy Twistytail

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Title: Curly and Floppy Twistytail The Funny Piggie Boys
Author: Howard R. Garis
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BED TIME STORIES
CURLY AND FLOPPY TWISTYTAIL (THE FUNNY PIGGIE BOYS)
BY
HOWARD R. GARIS
Author of "SAMMIE AND SUSIE LITTLETAIL," "JACKO AND JUMPO KINKYTAIL," "THE UNCLE WIGGILY STORIES," "THE DADDY SERIES," "CIRCUS ANIMAL STORIES," "THE ISLAND BOYS," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY LOUIS WISA

CONTENTS
Curly Twistytail Is Named
Floppy Gets His Name
Pinky's Rubber Ball
How Curly Helped Mother
Curly and the Elephant
Flop and the Bag of Meal
Piggy Boys at School
Curly Is Vaccinated
Curly and the Spinning Top
Flop and the Turtle
Curly and the Chestnuts
Baby Pinky and the Doctor
Curly and the Big Apple
The Piggies and the Pumpkin
The Piggies In a Cornfield
Flop Has a Tumble
Mr. Twistytail's Lost Hat
Mother Twistytail's New Bonnet
Curly and the Sour Milk
Flop and the Pie Lady
The Piggies and the Jelly
Flop and the Marshmallows
The Piggies and the Fish
Curly and the Afraid Girl
The Piggies At the Party
Floppy and the Bonfire
Flop and the Skate Wagon
Pinky and the Lemon
The Piggies and Santa Claus
Floppy and the Stockings
The Twistytails' Christmas

STORY I
CURLY TWISTYTAIL IS NAMED
Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, in the days when there were fairies and giants and all things like that, there lived in a little house, on the edge of a wood, a family of pigs. Now these pigs weren't like the pigs, which perhaps you children have seen on most farms. No, indeed! They were just the nicest cleanest, sweetest pigs you ever dreamed of--not that pigs on a farm can't be clean, if they want to, but, somehow or other, no one seems to have time to see that they are clean. I guess it would take some one like Jennie Chipmunk to sweep and dust their pen for them.
Anyhow the pigs I am going to tell you about were very different from most pigs, and they had some very funny adventures.
First, there was the papa pig, and his name was Mr. Archibald Twistytail though no one ever called him anything but Mr. Twistytail except maybe his wife, when he forgot to bring up a scuttle of coal so she could do the washing. And then, of course there was Mrs. Twistytail--she was the mamma pig. And there were two little boy pigs, and for a time they didn't have any names, as their papa and mamma were so busy that they couldn't think what to call them. So they just said "Here sonny!" or "Hi, Bubby," whenever they wanted them to come in, or eat their dinner.
One of these little boy pigs always wore short trousers with stripes painted on them, and the other little piggie chap's trousers were like a checker-board.
And then--oh, but I almost forgot about the little baby pig. She was the sweetest little creature you can imagine, and her right name was Pinky, because she was so pink, just like a baby's toes when she sleeps in her crib. But Pinky was hardly ever called by her right name, almost every one said just "Baby," and that answered very well.
And now I'm going to tell you how one of the pigs got his name. He was the oldest pig of the three children, and one day he and his brother thought they would go out for a walk.
"Come along!" exclaimed the oldest boy pig. "Maybe we will have an adventure, such as Uncle Wiggily Longears used to have," for you see the pigs knew Uncle Wiggly almost as well as you do.
"All right," said the younger boy pig. "Where shall we go?"
"Off in the woods," spoke his brother. "The woods are full of adventures."
So they strolled out of their house, and started for the woods. I