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Faith was glad to escape him and run home . Dan Reese , standing among the crowd of boys at the gate , looked at her and shaped his mouth into `` pig-girl , '' but dared not utter it aloud just there . Next day in school was a different matter . At noon recess Faith encountered Dan in the little spruce plantation behind the school and Dan shouted once more , `` Pig-girl ! Pig-girl ! ROOSTER-GIRL ! '' Walter Blythe suddenly rose from a mossy cushion behind a little clump of firs where he had been reading .