Title: What Became of Them? and, The Conceited Little Pig
Author: G. Boare
Illustrator: A. M. Lockyer
Release date: November 15, 2007 [eBook #23480]
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Mark C. Orton, Anne Storer and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
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Transcriber’s Note:
Author noted as G. Boare in the opening pages,
and as G. Boase at the end of the text. Left as printed.
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o he ventured out, and she ventured out,
And I saw them go with pain,
But what befell them I never can tell,
For they never came back again.
Anon.
This poem is reprinted from “St. Nicholas” by kind permission of the Century Company.
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There were six little pigs, as I’ve heard people say,
Went out with their mother-pig walking one day,
The sun shone so bright, and the air was so free,
They might all have been happy, as happy could be.
And so they all were, except one little brother,
Who thought he was wiser, poor thing, than his mother,
And was always contriving some nonsense to chatter,
And, when she reproved him, said, “What does it matter?”
“I scarcely need answer” his mother would say,
“You yourself will discover the matter one day.
“Take my word, you’ll repent it, or sooner or later.”
Says he “I repent it! why, what does it matter?”
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“O mother! O mother!” the little pig cried,
“Now I really repent of my folly and pride,
Oh, I’m sure I shall die!” and he sank down and died,
While his mother and brothers wept round the well side.
G. Boase.
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