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“Down at Merry-garden,” replied the wolf, “and if you will
not deceive me I will come for you, at five o’clock to-morrow,
and we will go together and get some apples.”

Well, the little pig bustled up the next morning at four o'clock,
and went off for the apples, hoping to get back before the wolf
came ; but he had farther to go, and had to climb the tree, so
that just as he was coming down from it, he saw the wolf coming,
which, as you may suppose, frightened him very much. When
the wolf came up he said, “ Little pig, what! are you here before
me? Are they nice apples?”

“Yes, very,” said the little pig. “I will throw you down one;
and he threw it so far, that, while the wolf was gone to pick it
up, the little pig jumped down and ran home.

The next day the wolf came again, and said to the little pig,
“Little pig, there is a fair at Shanklin this afternoon, will you
go?”

“Oh, yes,” said the pig, “I will go; what time shall you be
ready ?”

“At three,” said the wolf.

So the little pig went off before the time as usual, and got to
the fair, and bought a butter-churn, which he was going home
with, when he saw the wolf coming. Then he could not tell what
todo. So he got into the churn to hide, and by so doing turned
it round, and it rolled down the hill with the pig in it, which
frightened the wolf so much, that he ran home without going to
the fair. He went to the little pig’s house, and told him how
frightened he had been by a great round thing which came down
the hill past him. Then the little pig said, “Hah, I frightened