You see the little pig imagined the trick was done just to get him to
eat the apple. He did not count the rope-jumping part of it at all,
though that, really, was what the boy wanted.
Once more Bob placed the apple on the ground, on the far side of the
rope. One end of the rope the boy held in his hand, and the other was
around Squinty's leg, but a loop of it was made fast to a stick stuck in
the ground, so the boy could pull on the rope and raise or lower it,
just as you girls do when you play.
"Come on, now, Squinty! Jump over it!" called the boy.
The little pig saw the apple, and smelled it. He wanted very much to get
it. But, when he ran toward it, he found the rope raised up in front of
him. He forgot, for a moment, his second trick, and stood still.
"Oh, I thought you said he would jump the rope!" said Mollie, rather
disappointed.
"He will--just wait a minute," spoke the boy. "Come on, Squinty!" he
called.
Once more Squinty started for the apple. This time he remembered that,
before, he had to jump the rope to get it.
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