THE PILOT
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Freddy the fabulous pig takes to the air in a blaze of glory (unreflected of course)! He has learned to fly in order to defeat the dastardly schemes of Watson P. Condiment, the comic-book tycoon villain who is trying to force Mlle. Rose of Boomschmidt's Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus, to marry him. These high flown adventures of Freddy as a dauntless and intrepid airplane pilot involve Sniffy Wilson, the skunk, Uncle Ben, inventor of the Benjamin Bean Bombsight, General Grimm of the U.S. Army - and many another of Freddy's friends and enemies. Feats of valour are all in a day's work to Freddy - even such a highly dangerous one as his secret mission in enemy territory, disguised as Lorna, the Leopard Woman! |
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And you thought pigs would never fly! "Oh the young pigs fly About the sky And they zoom and dive and roll; They yell and whoop As they spin and loop Under the sky's blue bowl. They sing and shout As they whiz about, For there's elbow room in the sky; And it's lots more fun Up there in the sun Than down in their stuffy sty. Oh, the pig is bold And when he's told That a hurricane's on the way, Does he turn and run? He does like fun! He hollers and shouts Hurray! Oh, not a fig Cares the fearless pig When the thunder bangs and crashes; Right into the heart Of the storm he darts, And plays tag with the lightening flashes." |
On the left is a Knopf Gibraltar Library Binding and the right is a Knopf 1986 reprint.
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