Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GUINEY-PIGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: Guiney-pigs is awful cute
Last Line: When they's company!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Pigs; Boars; Hogs


GUINEY-PIGS is awful cute,
With their little trimbly snoot
Sniffin' at the pussly that
We bring 'em to nibble at.
Looks like they're so clean an' white,
An' so dainty an' polite,
They could eat like you an' me
When they's company!

Tiltin' down the clover-tops
Till they spill, an' overdrops
The sweet morning dew -- Don't you
Think they might have napkins, too?
Ef a guiney-pig was big
As a shore-an'-certain pig,
Nen he wouldn't ac' so fine
When he come to dine.

Nen he'd chomp his jaws an' eat
Things out in the dirty street,
Dirt an' all! An' nen lay down
In mud-holes an' waller roun'!
So the guiney-pigs is best,
'Cause they're nice an' tidiest;
They eat 'most like you an' me
When they's company!





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