Clean Clarence

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Clean Clarence

     Mother Pig had five new little piglets.

   Author:  Priscilla and Otto Friedrich
Copyright Date:  1959
Publisher:  Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pagination:  38 p.

Farmer Jones gave each one a name
beginning with the letter C: Charley, Cherry, Chloe, Candy and Clarence.
     Four of the five little piglets grew up very quickly into fat pink young pigs—but Clarence stayed rather small. The reason was very strange. When Farmer Jones threw a pail full of garbage into the pigs’ trough for them to eat, Mother Pig came waddling up as fast as she could waddle, and she ate as fast as she could eat—slurp, slurp, slurp.
     And Charley and Cherry and Chloe and Candy came running too and gobbled away—slurp, slurp, slurp. Charley was so eager to eat that he stuck both front feet into the trough so that he could get more food. Chloe was so eager to eat that she got right into the trough and lay down in it.
     But Clarence Pig was a clean pig. And when Mother Pig and the other four piglets rushed to the trough to eat, Clarence Pig just stuck up his nose.
     “What a messy way to eat,” thought Clarence. “How unsanitary! How unpleasant! If I can’t eat like a gentleman, I won’t eat at all.” . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Farmer Jones gave each one a name beginning with the letter C: Charley, Cherry, Chloe, Candy and Clarence. Four of the five little piglets grew up very quickly into fat pink young pigs—but Clarence stayed rather small. The reason was very strange. When Farmer Jones threw a pail full of garbage into the pigs’ trough for them to eat, Mother Pig came waddling up as fast as she could waddle, and she ate as fast as she could eat—slurp, slurp, slurp. And Charley and Cherry and Chloe and Candy came running too and gobbled away—slurp, slurp, slurp. Charley was so eager to eat that he stuck both front feet into the trough so that he could get more food. Chloe was so eager to eat that she got right into the trough and lay down in it. But Clarence Pig was a clean pig. And when Mother Pig and the other four piglets rushed to the trough to eat, Clarence Pig just stuck up his nose. “What a messy way to eat,” thought Clarence. “How unsanitary! How unpleasant! If I can’t eat like a gentleman, I won’t eat at all.” . . . . . . . . . . . . .