Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories   By: Howard Roger Garis (1873-1962)

Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg

Howard R. Garis

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

These stories appeared originally in the Evening News, of Newark, N.J., and are reproduced in book form by the kind permission of the publishers of that paper, to whom the author extends his thanks.

CONTENTS.

I. BUDDY PIGG IN A CABBAGE II. BRIGHTEYES AND MRS. HOPTOAD III. BUDDY PIGG AND SAMMY LITTLETAIL IV. BUDDY PIGG PLAYS BALL V. BRIGHT EYES PIGG AND SISTER SALLIE VI. DR. PIGG AND UNCLE WIGGILY VII. BUDDY PIGG IS CAUGHT VIII. BUDDY'S AND BRIGHTEYES' FOURTH OF JULY IX. BUDDY PIGG WANTS A TAIL X. BUDDY WALKS A TIGHT ROPE XI. BRIGHTEYES IN A TIN CAN XII. DR. PIGG AND THE FIRECRACKER XIII. BUDDY PIGG IN A BOAT XIV. BRIGHTEYES AND THE PEANUT CANDY XV. BUDDY AND THE JUNE BUG XVI. BRIGHTEYES AND THE BAD BOY XVII. BUDDY'S GREAT RUN XVIII. BRIGHTEYES, BUDDY AND THE TURNIP XIX. BUDDY AND THE BURGLAR FOX XX. BRIGHTEYES HAS AN ADVENTURE XXI. BUDDY IN A DEEP HOLE XXII. A TRICK THE GROUNDHOGS PLAYED XXIII. BUDDY IN THE BERRY BUSH XXIV. BRINGING HOME THE COWS XXV. BUDDY RIDES HORSEBACK XXVI. BUDDY AND BRIGHTEYES FALL DOWNHILL XXVII. BUDDY AND BRIGHTEYES GO BATHING XXVIII. BUDDY BUILDS A SAND HOUSE XXIX. BUDDY HELPS SAMMY LITTLETAIL XXX. BRIGHTEYES AND JENNIE CHIPMUNK XXXI. BUDDY AND BRIGHTEYES IN THE MOUNTAINS

BUDDY AND BRIGHTEYES PIGG

STORY I

BUDDY PIGG IN A CABBAGE

Once upon a time, not so many years ago, in fact it was about the same year that Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, the little puppy dog boys lived in their kennel house, there used to play with them, two queer little brown and white and black and white animal children, called guinea pigs. They were just as cute as they could be, and, since I have told you some stories about rabbits, and squirrels and ducks, as well as about puppies, I wonder how you would like to hear some account of what the guinea pigs did?

Anyhow, I'll begin, and so it happened that there lived at one time, in a nice little house, called a pen, four guinea pigs.

There was the papa, and he was named Dr. Pigg, and the reason for it was that he had once been in the hospital with a broken paw, and ever since he was known as "Doctor." Then there was his wife, and his little boy, and his little girl. They were Montmorency and Matilda, but, as the children didn't like those names, they always spoke of each other as "Buddy" and "Brighteyes," so I will do the same.

Buddy Pigg (and he had two g's in his name you notice) was black and white, and Brighteyes Pigg was brown and white, and they were the nicest guinea pig children you could meet if you rode all week in an automobile. One day Buddy went out for a walk in the woods alone, because Brighteyes had to stay at home to help to do the dishes, and dust the furniture.

Buddy, who, I suppose, you remember, was a friend of Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, walked along, sniffing with his nose, just like Sammie and Susie Littletail, the rabbits.

"It seems to me," Buddy said, "that I smell something good to eat. I wonder if it can be an ice cream cone, or some peanuts, or anything like that?" He looked around but he couldn't see any store there in the woods where they sold ice cream or peanuts, and then he knew he must be mistaken. Still he kept on smelling something good.

"I wonder where that is?" he exclaimed, and he sniffed harder than ever. And then he knew what it was a cabbage a great, big cabbage! He ran around the side of a big rock, and there lying on the path, was a fine big cabbage. Some one had dropped it by mistake.

"This is great luck!" cried Buddy Pigg. "There is enough for me and Brighteyes, and I can take some home to mamma and to my papa, the doctor. Yes, indeed, this has been a lucky day for me. I'm as glad I found this cabbage as if I had picked up ten cents! I guess I'll eat some to see how it tastes."