A Day No Pigs Would Die (14 page)

R
OBERT
N
EWTON
P
ECK
has written more than sixty books, including his highly acclaimed debut,
A Day No Pigs Would Die,
and its sequel,
A Pan of the Sky.
He is also the winner of the Mark Twain Award for his Soup series of books. Many of his novels are deeply rooted in rural Vermont, where he grew up, and Florida, his second home.

Robert Newton Peck plays jazz and ragtime piano and tends eleven mustang horses and two cats. He and his wife, Sam, reside in Longwood, Florida.

Published by Laurel-Leaf
an imprint of Random House Children’s Books
a division of Random House, Inc.
New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the
product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1972, copyright renewed 2000 by Robert Newton Peck
Foreword copyright © 2005 by Robert Newton Peck

All rights reserved.

Originally published in hardcover in the United States of America by
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 1972. This edition published by arrangement
with Random House Children’s Books.

Part of chapter fourteen originally appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly.

Laurel-Leaf and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-57451-0

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