“Here we go!” cried the fox, and with that he grabbed up poor Pinky, tossing her rubber ball on the ground.  Up it bounced, and, hardly knowing what she did, the little pig girl caught it in her foot, holding it tight.  Then the fox slung her across his back and ran off with her, Pinky squealing all the while as hard as she could.

“Squeal away!” growled the old fuzzy fox.  “You’ll soon stop it when I put you in the pork pie!”

And Pinky kept on squealing.  Pretty soon the fox ran through the woods where Curly and Flop were playing soldier, but the fox didn’t know that.  Pinky did, however, and when she got beneath the trees she squealed louder than ever, hoping her brothers would hear.

“Keep quiet!” barked the fox.

“No!  No!” exclaimed Pinky, and she squealed again.  Oh! she squealed like anything.  Then Curly heard her.  So did Flop.

“That sounds like Pinky,” said Curly, blinking his eyes.

“It surely does,” agreed his brother.  “Something must have happened to her.”  They ran out of the fort they had made of corncobs piled one on the other, and they saw their little baby sister being carried off by the fox.  Wow!  Think of that!

“Here, you let our Pinky alone!” cried Curly bravely.

“No!  No!  No!” answered the bad fox.

“Then we’ll shoot you!” shouted Flop.  “Shoot him, Curly!”

Then those two brave pig boys shot their make-believe guns at the fox.  “Bang!  Bang!  Bung!  Bung!” But do you s’pose he stopped for that?  Not a bit of it!  On he ran, faster than ever, carrying away Pinky, and Curly and Flop ran after him, but what could they do?  It looked as if the little pig girl would soon be made into pork pie, when she suddenly called out: 

“Oh, boys!  My rubber ball!  Fill it with water and squirt it at the fox!” and she threw her ball to Curly.

“Don’t you dare squirt rubber-ball water at me!” howled the fox, for he was very much afraid of getting his tail wet.

“Yes we will!” shouted Curly and with that he caught the ball his sister tossed to him.  It only took him a second to stop at a mud puddle and fill the ball with water.  Then, taking careful aim, just as a brave pig soldier boy should, he squeezed the ball, and “Zip!” out squirted the water all over the bad fox.

“Oh wow!  Double wow, and pumpkin pie!  That water went right into my eye!” howled the fox, and then, with his tail all wet, so that it weighed ten pounds, or more, that fox was so utterly frightened and kerslostrated that he let go of poor little Pinky and ran off to his den, and he didn’t have any pork pie for a long time afterward.

“Oh, you saved me!” cried Pinky to her two brothers, when they had picked her up, and started back home with her.

“You helped save yourself,” said Curly.  “You and your rubber ball,” and he and Flop were very glad their sister had not been carried off by the bad fox.