They would have wrung their hands in despair,
but, attempting to do so, grew all the more
desperate for seeing themselves squatted on then
hams, and pawing the air with their fore trotters.
Dear me! what pendulous ears they had! what
little red eyes, half buried in fat! and what long
snouts, instead of Grecian noses!

But brutes as they certainly were, they yet
had enough of human nature in them to be
shocked at their own hideousness; and, still in-
tending to groan, they uttered a viler grunt and
squeal than before. So harsh and ear-piercing
it was, that you would have fancied a butcher
was sticking his knife into each of their throats,
or, at the very least, that somebody was pulling
every hog by his funny little twist of a tail.

"Begone to your sty!" cried the enchantress,
giving them some smart strokes with her wand;
and then she turned to the serving men "Drive
out these swine, and throw down some acorns
for them to eat."

The door of the saloon being flung open, the
??rove of hogs ran in all directions save the right
one, in accordance with their hoggish perversity,
but were finally driven into the back yard of the

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