Pettitoes

-- (Aunt Pettitoes passed round the handkerchief again) -- "beware of traps, hen roosts, bacon and eggs; always walk upon your hind legs."

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Aunt Pettitoes sighed and grunted, and addressed those little pigs as follows --

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-- (Aunt Pettitoes passed round the handkerchief again) -- "beware of traps, hen roosts, bacon and eggs; always walk upon your hind legs."

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Aunt Pettitoes sighed and grunted, and addressed those little pigs as follows --

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Aunt Pettitoes and I dragged him out by the hind legs.

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Once upon a time there was an old pig called Aunt Pettitoes.

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Aunt Pettitoes wiped her eyes with a large pocket handkerchief, then she wiped Pigling Bland's nose and shed tears; then she wiped

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And presently in a basket of clean clothes, we found another dirty little pig -- "Tchut, tut, tut! whichever is this?" grunted Aunt Pettitoes.

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Aunt Pettitoes, "there will be more to eat without them."

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Aunt Pettitoes gave to each a little bundle, and eight conversation peppermints with appropriate moral sentiments in screws of paper.

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