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10 THE CONCEITED PIG.
push it open with very little trouble
whenever I like. The other morning,
before any of j^ou were awake, I went
out to desire Cock-a-doodle not to crow
so loud, because I thought it would
disturb my mother, and nobody knew
anything about it; and Cock-a-doodle,
by the way, behaved so extremely ill
that I have taken no notice of him ever
since. Poor fellow! I suppose I must
give him a kind word to-morrow ; for my
friend Miss Peck tells me that he seemed
sadly out of spirits, and she was certain
he was a good deal cut up about it, for
she had seen him skulking behind the
faggot pile all by himself, and though he
pretended to be picking up an insect
when he saw her, she was sure that he
had really retired there to mourn over

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Conceited pig
DescriptionWith six illustrations by Harrison Weir, engraved on wood.
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DescriptionVolumes from a collection of 610 books rich in Highland folklore, Ossianic literature and other Celtic subjects. Many of the books annotated by John Francis Campbell of Islay, who assembled the collection.
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