5. Swine eat almost all kinds of food, and they eat a great deal and very often. When feeding at a trough, they root each other out of the way, and seem in a great hurry to get all they can. 6. When a pig is caught, or is hungry, it sets up a fearful squeal, which is worse to bear than the bray of a donkey. 7. When the pig runs out in a pasture, it roots up the ground so much that a ring is put through the thick edge of its snout; then, when he tries to root, the ring hurts so he stops. 8. It is not best to meddle with little pigs, and make them squeal, when the old sow is about, for she is ready to fight for them at any time. 9. The flesh of swine is called pork, and when salted and smoked it is bacon. [Illustration] _THE LITTLE PIGGIE WIG._ There was a little piggie wig, So fat it couldn’t run: With eyes that twinkled merrily, And tail that curled with fun. [Illustration] This piggie had a little trough, Which was always filled with food, Bran and broth, and turnips too, And everything that’s good. [Illustration] Its little bed was made at night Of lovely meadow hay; There, covered up all but the nose, It snored till break of day. With sleeping and with eating, The piggie grew so fat, That at last it couldn’t walk or run, So on the straw it sat. [Illustration] At length it grew so _very_ fat It really couldn’t see; But the fatter, still the jollier, And so it laughed “He! he!” [Illustration] At last, one day, a strange man came Alas for piggie then! For all at once it went away, And was never seen again.