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Speaker 1: in our show notes Thank You. The tale of Grunty Pig.

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Speaker 1: He was the smallest of seven children. At first, his

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Speaker 1: mother thought she would call him runty, but she soon

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Speaker 1: changed her mind about that. Or she discovered that even

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Speaker 1: if he was the runt of the family, he had

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Speaker 1: the loudest grunt of all. So the good lady quickly

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Speaker 1: slipped a G in front of the name Runty. There,

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Speaker 1: she exclaimed, Grunty is a name that you ought to

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Speaker 1: be proud of. It calls attention to your best point.

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Speaker 1: And if you keep on making as much noise in

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Speaker 1: the world as you do now, maybe people won't notice

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Speaker 1: that you're a bit undersized. You certainly sound as big

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Speaker 1: as any little pig that I ever saw or heard,

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Speaker 1: so that was settled. Though Grunty Pig didn't care one

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Speaker 1: way or another. He seemed to be interested in nothing

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Speaker 1: but food. There is no doubt that he would have

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Speaker 1: been willing to change his name a dozen times a

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Speaker 1: day or the slight bribe of a drink of warm milk.

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Speaker 1: His mother sometimes said that he had the biggest appetite,

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Speaker 1: as well as the loudest grunt, of all her severn children,

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Speaker 1: and she was glad that he ate well, because food

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Speaker 1: was the very thing that would make him grow. You

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Speaker 1: won't always be runty, grunty if you eat plenty, missus Pig,

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Speaker 1: often told him, and then he would grunt, as if

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Speaker 1: to say, you don't need to urge me, just give

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Speaker 1: me a chance. Grunty Pig soon learned that being the

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Speaker 1: smallest of the family had one sad drawback. His brothers

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Speaker 1: and sisters, all bigger than him, could crowd him away

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Speaker 1: from the feeding trough, and they not only could, but

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Speaker 1: they often did. Unless Grunty reached the trough among the first,

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Speaker 1: If he tried to eat at one end of the trough,

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Speaker 1: So whenever he did succeed in getting the first taste

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Speaker 1: three other youngsters on each side of him, all crowding

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Speaker 1: had frightful manners. Though she talked and talked to them

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Speaker 1: grunty Pig. If he happened to be left out in

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Speaker 1: couldn't help remembering his mother's remarks about manners. It's awful

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Speaker 1: to watch them, he would gurgle, I don't see how

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Speaker 1: they can be so rude. He thought. There was no

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Speaker 1: sadder sight than his six brothers and sisters jostling one

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Speaker 1: to push in among them. One thing especially distressed Missus

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Speaker 1: Pig Her children would put their front feet right into

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Speaker 1: Nothing she said to them made the slightest difference. Even

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Speaker 1: said one of her sons, a bouncing black youngster who

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Speaker 1: missus Pig replied, Do try to restrain yourselves when you eat.

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Speaker 1: Remember there's plenty of time, but there's not always plenty

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Speaker 1: of you, and if you children didn't forget your manners,

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Speaker 1: everyone would get his share, no more and no less. Now,

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Speaker 1: beat all he had ever seen. They come or running

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Speaker 1: Johnny Green liked to watch the pigs. That Blackfellow's the

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Speaker 1: Grunty Pig looked up at Farmer Green and gave a

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Speaker 1: me behave, surely Farmer Green won't be able to, he boasted.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Blackie Pig was very young, otherwise he would

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Speaker 1: never have made such a silly remark, and he soon

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Speaker 1: The next day, Farmer Green made a long lid that

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Speaker 1: of Missus Pig's children. There was no more jostling at

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Speaker 1: Pig was delighted with the improvement. When Farmer Green filled

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Speaker 1: no youngsters could have behaved more beautifully. And Grunty liked

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Speaker 1: top of the feeding trough, Grunty Pig began to grow

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Speaker 1: at last. He was getting as much to eat as

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Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters, and the bigger he grew, the

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Speaker 1: more food he wanted. He was always on the watch

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Speaker 1: for some extra tidbit, always rooting about to find some

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Speaker 1: or turn up or potato peeling rewarded him for his

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Speaker 1: eager searching. Still, Grunty Pig was far from satisfied. He

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Speaker 1: Out in the wide world. There must be many good

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Speaker 1: things to eat, he thought, I'd like to find the

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Speaker 1: place where the potato peelings grow. But of all this,

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Speaker 1: Grunty Pig said nothing to anyone. If the chance ever

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Speaker 1: take nobody with him. He had not yet caught up

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Speaker 1: when she saw him sniffling around the walls of the pen.

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Speaker 1: She never once guessed that he could be looking for

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Speaker 1: anything except something to eat. How could she know that Grunty,

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Speaker 1: to escape. Now it happened that there was one loose

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Speaker 1: board in a corner of the pig pen. The nails

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Speaker 1: that once held it had rusted away. Nobody but Grunty

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Speaker 1: Pig had discovered that by pressing against an end of

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Speaker 1: this board, one could bend it outwards. It was too

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Speaker 1: bad for him that he had grown so rapidly. Had

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Speaker 1: he been just a bit smaller, he could have squeezed

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Speaker 1: through the opening. Here Grunty met the first real problem

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Speaker 1: of his life. For some days he puzzled over it.

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Speaker 1: One thing was certain. He couldn't make himself sick unless

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Speaker 1: In the end, he made up his mind that there

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Speaker 1: was only one thing to do. He must make the

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Speaker 1: The board opened wide, and as he slipped through the

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Speaker 1: There he was with the wide world before him, and

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Speaker 1: With a grunt of delight, Grunty Pig trotted out of

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Speaker 1: since he didn't know how long it would be before

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Speaker 1: outing while it lasted. Hurrying into the orchard, grunty ate

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Speaker 1: started to roop beneath the trees. It was fun to dig, besides,

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Speaker 1: he found a good many tender roots that tickled his taste.

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Speaker 1: They were different from anything he had ever eaten before.

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Speaker 1: After a while, Grunty Pig learned something He had always

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Speaker 1: supposed that he could go on eating forever if he

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Speaker 1: and I can't even hold one half of it. Still,

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Speaker 1: there were other pleasures to be had besides eating. Grunty

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Speaker 1: deep mud as he had never dreamed could be found anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Grunty Pig gave a deep sigh of happiness as he

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Speaker 1: his silvery bristles were smeared with black. The mud felt

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Speaker 1: delightfully cool upon his piggy, pinkish skin. This is almost

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Speaker 1: better than eating, Grunty squealed. At last, his gurgles and

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Speaker 1: grunts attracted the notice of a proud creature known as

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Speaker 1: Henryette a Hen. She had been scratching for worms in

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Speaker 1: You careless child, she squawked, Stop playing in that mud.

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Speaker 1: Don't you know it's very dangerous to get your feet wet.

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Speaker 1: Grunty Pig stood up and looked at her. Goodness, you're

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Speaker 1: a sight, Henrietta Hen exclaimed, Does your mother know you're

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Speaker 1: here now? Grunty Pig didn't answer a single one of

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Speaker 1: So it was no wonder that she thought he was

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Speaker 1: It's bad enough to have a child so untidy as

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Speaker 1: witted one. Then to grunty she said, sharply, you'd better

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Speaker 1: the sun. He actually obeyed her, and as soon as

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Speaker 1: Henrietta Hen saw that he was sunning himself, she walked

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Speaker 1: out of sight around the barn, stopping now and then

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Speaker 1: to pick up some tidbit or other. Good grunty pig

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Speaker 1: grunted she's gone. This was the easiest way to get

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Speaker 1: rid of her. Now, let's see what else I can

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Speaker 1: find