Pigs Is Pigs
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"Pigs Is Pigs" is a story by American writer Ellis Parker Butler. First published as a short story in American Illustrated Magazine in September 1905, "Pigs Is Pigs" went on to dozens of printings as a book and in anthologies over the next several decades.
Plot
Railway agent Mike Flannery wants to charge the livestock rate for a shipment of two
Because the customer refuses to accept delivery, Flannery is forced to feed and house what he now calls the "dago pigs" in his office. When he eventually receives instructions to accept the lower price, he discovers that the customer has moved. He is then instructed by his superiors to return the pigs to the company warehouse. By this time, the guinea pigs have reproduced exponentially in Flannery's station house. After returning all the descendants, Flannery resolves to charge the lower rate for any future livestock.
Adaptations
The story was made into movie form several times, including the
- Pigs Is Pigs (1910)
- Pigs Is Pigs (1914) directed by George D. Baker
- They Say Pigs Is Pigs (1917) animated cartoon by Harry Palmer
- Pigs Is Pigs a 1954 cartoon (non-official Silly Symphony) directed by Jack Kinney
Inspiration of other works
The rapid reproduction of the guinea pigs and their near overrunning of a facility is mirrored by the Martian flat cats in the
References
- ISBN 978-0765319630.
If that matter had simply been dropped after that one episode was filmed, I would have chalked it up wryly to experience. But the "nice kid" did not drop it; "tribbles" (i.e. my "flat cats") have been exploited endlessly… Well that's one that did "larn me." Today if J. Christ phoned me on some matter of business, I would simply tell him: "See my agent.
- ISBN 0345234022.
External links
- The full text of Pigs Is Pigs at Wikisource
- Media related to Pigs Is Pigs at Wikimedia Commons
- Pigs is Pigs at Project Gutenberg
- Pigs Is Pigs public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Pigs Is Pigs (1914) at IMDb
- Pigs Is Pigs (1954) at IMDb