Wolf and pig
English | The Three Little Pigs
The Three Little Pigs
Mrs Pig was very tired: 'Oh dear,' she said to her three little pigs, 'I can’t do this work anymore, I’m afraid you must leave home and make your own way in the world.' So the three little pigs set off.
The first little pig met a man carrying a bundle of straw.
'Excuse me,' said the first little pig politely. 'Would you please sell some of your straw so I can make a house?'
The man readily agreed and the first little pig went off to find a good place to build his house.
The other little pigs carried on along the road and, soon, they met a man carrying a bundle of sticks.
'Excuse me,' said the little pig politely. 'Would you please sell me some sticks so I can build a house?'
The man readily agreed and the little pig said goodbye to his brother.
The third little pig didn’t think much of their ideas:
'I’m going to build myself a much bigger, better, stronger house,' he thought, and he carried off down the road until he met a man with a cart load of bricks.
'Excuse me,' said the third little pig, as politely as his mother had taught him. 'Please can you sell me some bricks so I can build a house?'
'Of course,' said the man. 'Where would you like me to unload them?'
The third little pig looked around and saw a nice patch of ground under a tree.
'Over there,' he pointed.
They all set to work and by nighttime the house of straw and the house of sticks were built but the house of bricks was only just beginning to rise above the ground. The first and second little pigs laughed, they thought their brother was really silly having to work so hard when they had finished.
However, a few days later the brick house was completed and looked very smartwith shiny windows, a neat little chimney and a shiny knocker on the door.
One starlit night, soon after they had settled in, a wolf came out looking for food.
By the light of the moon he espied the first little pig’s house of straw and he sidled up to the door and called:
'Little pig, little pig, let me come in.'
'No, no, by the hair of my chinny chin chin!' replied the little pig.
'Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in!' said the wolf who was a very big, bad, and a greedy sort of wolf.
And he huffed, and he puffed and blew the house in. But the little pig ran away as fast as his trotters could carry him and went to the second little pig’s house to hide.
The next night the wolf was even hungrier and he saw the house of sticks. He crept up to the door and called:
'Little pig, little pig, let me come in.'
'Oh no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!' said the second little pig, as the first little pig hid trembling under the stairs.
'Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in!' said the wolf.
And he huffed, and he puffed and he blew the house in. But the little pigs ran away as fast as their trotters could carry them and went to the third little pig’s house to hide.
'What did I tell you?' said the third little pig. 'It’s important to build houses properly.' But he welcomed them in and they all settled down for the rest of the night.
The following night the wolf was even hungrier and feeling bigger and badder than ever.
Prowling around, he came to the third little pig’s house. He crept up to the door and called:
'Little pig, little pig, let me come in.'
'Oh no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!' said the third little pig, while the first and the second little pigs hid trembling under the stairs.
'Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in!' said the wolf.
And he huffed, and he puffed and he blew but nothing happened.
So he huffed and he puffed and he blew again, even harder, but still nothing happened. The brick house stood firm.
The wolf was very angry and getting even bigger and even badder by the minute.
'I’m going to eat you all,' he growled, 'just you wait and see.'
He prowled round the house trying to find a way in. The little pigs trembled when they saw his big eyes peering through the window. Then they heard a scrambling sound.
'Quick, quick!' said the third little pig. 'He’s climbing the tree. I think he’s going to come down the chimney.'
The three little pigs got the biggest pan they had, and filled it full of water and put it on the fire to boil. All the time they could hear the sound of the wolf climbing the tree and then walking along the roof.
The little pigs held their breath. The wolf was coming down the chimney.
Nearer and nearer he came until, with a tremendous splash, he landed in the pan of water.
'Yoweeeee!' he screamed, and shot back up the chimney thinking his tail was on fire.
The Ram, the Pig and the Big Bad Wolf ~ Learn to Read English Story
Illustrated By: Sarah Frank
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ONCE UPON A TIME there was a ram (a ram is a boy sheep with big horns), and the ram lived on a farm. Every morning, a girl came into Ram's pen and gave him lots of food. You can see this Ram had a very happy life.
One morning, the girl came into Ram's pen. She gave him even more food than before and said, "Eat well, Ram. For you will not be here long. The next time I see you, it will be on our dinner plates!"
What could Ram do? He ate and ate till he could eat no more.
Then he bumped his head very hard at the pen. He pushed that pen so hard it flew wide open, and out he went! Ram knew just where to go - to the farm next door where his friend Pig lived. “Pig is smart," said Ram. "She will know what to do."
"Good day, friend Ram!" said Pig, when she saw Ram.
"It may be a good day for you," said Ram. "But it is not such a good day for me."
"Why is that?" said Pig.
"I just found out some very bad news,” said Ram. “I know why I have been so very well fed at the farm.”
“Why is that?" said Pig.
"I am fed well only to end up on their dinner plates!" said Ram.
"Ah, my grits!" said Pig. "Is it really true?"
“Yes!” said Ram. "I just heard it myself this morning from the girl who brings in my food. Please tell me, what should I do?”
“Well, if that is how it is at your farm,” said Pig, “It must be true here at my farm, too. There is only one thing to do - we must get away! We must go off into the woods.
Let's build a house in the woods for us to live in, and we will take care of ourselves."
"Yes, let's!" said Ram. And so the two of them set off.
After they had gone past the farm, they met a goose.
"Good day, good sirs," said Goose, "where are the two of you headed?"
"Good day to you, too," said Ram. "If you must know, we found out some bad news about why we are so well fed at the farm. We are going into the woods to set up a house for ourselves."
"Well!" said Goose, "it is much the same with me at my farm. May I come with you, too?"
"Well," said Pig, "what can you do to help? You can make a good honk, honk sound, but to build a house that takes help on the ground."
"I can too help!” said Goose with pride. “No one is better than I at picking up leaves and moss and pushing it into small spaces. When I jam this in between the logs, your house will be tight and warm."
"Well that does sound like good help!" So it was okay for Goose could join them.
For more than anything, Pig wanted to be warm and cozy in their new house.
When they were almost at the woods they met a hare, who came hopping out of the woods.
"Good day," said Hare. "Where are you three headed off to today?"
"Good day to you, friend Hare," said Ram. "We were far too well fed at home, and now we know the terrible reason why. We are going off into the woods where will build a house and set up for ourselves."
"Is that right?" said Hare. "Every summer, every bush is a good house for me. But in winter I have said many times, 'If I only live till next summer, I will build a proper house.' So I have half a mind to go and build the house with you."
"But could you help?" said Pig. “I suppose if we got into trouble with some dogs, you might run off and they would chase you away."
"I can do more than that!” said Hare.
“With my teeth I can chew wood into pegs. With my paws I can push the pegs into walls.
My teeth and hands are good tools and as they say, 'good tools make for good work.'"
"So they do!" So Hare joined them, too.
When they had gone a bit more, laughing and happy, they met a rooster.
"Good day," said Rooster. "You all seem to be having a good time. Where are you off to?"
"We are," said Ram, "but at home we were too well fed. Now we know the terrible reason why, so we are going off into the woods. We are going to build a house in the woods and set up for ourselves."
"Well!" said Rooster, "isn't that a fine idea! You may know that all cocks crow the loudest at home. Now if I might join such a fine group as yours, I would like to go with you."
"Ah!" said Pig, "we are sure that you have a very loud crow, but not a brick does that lay so we must say 'no.' ”
"Oh, but listen to me!" said Rooster. "A house without a dog or rooster is one without a clock. I am up early, and will be sure everyone else wakes for the day's work.
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"That would be good," said Pig. For you must know, Pig was always the deepest sleeper. If there were no other way, sleep could take up all her day.
So they all set off into the woods. Soon they found a very good spot indeed. And there they stopped to build their house.
Pig cut the timber and Ram carried it home. Hare chewed the wood and pushed pegs into the walls and roof. Goose picked up moss and stuffed it between the logs. You can be sure no one slept late in the morning as Rooster would crow and crow at dawn!
When the roof was lined with bark and covered with grass and mud, the house was ready. And there the animals lived by themselves, and were happy and well. Ram said, "It is good to travel east and west, but after all one's own home is best."
You must know that a bit deeper into the woods there was a den. In that den there lived two gray wolves. One of the wolves said to the other, "Look! A new house going up!" “Ah!” said the other.
“Who is setting up a new house very close to where we live?” And they licked their chops just thinking about it.
One of the wolves made up a reason to go to the new house. He went up to the house, knocked on the door, and asked for some honey for his table. But as soon as the wolf got one foot inside the door, Ram gave him such a bump into the stove that the wolf fell head first into it. Then Pig began to bite him, Goose to peck him, and Rooster crowed and crowed. As for Hare, she raced back and forth on the floor and dashed about to every corner of the house.
The wolf ran very fast out of the house!
"Well!" said the other wolf who had waited outside. "What became of the honey? For I do not see a jar or spoon."
"I am just glad to get out of there!" panted the wolf. "The most terrible creatures you can think of live in that house! As soon as I got inside the door, one of them threw me into the fire. There were two monsters who beat me and pinched me.
There must have been a hunter there, too, for I heard him dashing about looking for his gun. It was my good luck that he did not find it! If he had gotten hold of me, I am sure I never would have come out alive!"
- Why did the ram and the pig ask the other animals what they could do to help build a house before they were allowed to join?
- Talk about something you did in a group that you couldn't have done by yourself.
"The Ram and the Pig Who Set Up House" is adapted from "The Sheep and the Pig Who Set Up House," a story from Tales from the Field by P. Asbjornsen (London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1874), pp. 267-272.
This storyline, where several barnyard animals build a home together and defend it against intruders, is a popular motif in folktales. The Brothers Grimm tell such a version in "The Bremen Town Musicians", where a dog, a cat, a donkey, and a rooster join forces. Another tale is the English-American "How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune" (North American Legends by Virginia Haviland, 1979), where Jack joins a cat, dog, goat, bull, skunk and rooster and together they scare a band of robbers from their house in the woods.
The wolf and the pig (Ossetian fairy tale), fairy tales of the peoples of Russia about animals for kids, the smallest children of children, read online
There lived an old, very old pig. And that pig had three little pigs. One pig was named Time, another pig was called Warm, and the third pig was named Strong.
This pig lived in a deep forest ravine, in a small sakla. Every day she cooked porridge and fed the little piglets with that porridge. And then, as evening came, she put them to bed on straw beds.
So the old pig lived with her three piglets and did not know grief.
One day a pig was cooking porridge, and three little pigs were sitting right there in the sakla. They sat and looked either at their mother - an old pig, or at a cauldron of porridge.
Only suddenly they hear - someone is knocking on the saklya.
- Who is there? - asks the pig, and she ran to the door and looks through the crack.
He sees a little goat at the door.
She pushed back the strong bolt and opened the door.
- Who are you and what wind brought you to my poor hut? - the pig asks the kid.
- I am the son of an old goat from a nearby ravine. My mother sent you a salted fish as a gift.
The pig took the fish from the kid. A big fish, its scales shine like fire. Fat drops and falls to the ground.
The old pig was delighted - she had not eaten fish for a long time - she even grunted with joy. She grunted and said to the kid:
- Say hello to your mother, the old goat.
- Good, - answered the kid, bleated goodbye and ran home.
And the pig returned to the hearth, fed the little pigs with hot porridge, and began to fish herself. She ate all the fish from head to tail, even ate the offal, even ate all the bones.
“It would be nice to eat such fish every day!” thought the old pig. Then she took her piglets into the yard, laid them in a warm puddle, and immediately lay down herself to warm the old bones in the sun.
How much, how little, the pig lay like that with her piglets, and finally she wanted to drink. She poked her nose into a puddle, and there was only dirt in the puddle. “It would be nice to drink water from a mountain stream!” thought the old pig.
She jumped up and said to her little piglets:
- You are lying here quietly in a puddle, and I will run to the river.
And she ran along the path straight to the river.
An old pig ran to a mountain river and began to drink cold water eagerly.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a wolf. I saw a pig, jumped on its back, grabbed its neck with sharp teeth and grunted:
- Well, now I'll eat you, pig. I have been salivating for a long time, looking at you, but only you didn’t come across to me in the clutches!
“Bad business! thought the pig. - Yes, only the wolf is angry, but there is no animal in the forest more stupid than him. I'll try to fool the wolf."
And the pig says in a gentle voice:
- I beg you, don't eat me, good wolf.
My sides are stones, my head is a stump, my legs are pieces of wood. Have pity on your strong teeth, don't eat me. But I will treat you to glory - I will give you three of my piglets. And the pigs are not simple: fat, like wineskins 2 fat, pink, like apples in the garden.
The wolf thought and said:
- You speak the truth, pig: your sides are stones, your head is a stump and your legs are pieces of wood. It's better to eat fat pig meat than to grind your teeth on your bones.
The pig heard the words of the gray wolf, was very happy, and said to the wolf in a sad voice:
- O gray and wise wolf! Tonight, when evening comes, come to our ravine. As you come to the ravine, click first the eldest pig, then the middle one, then the youngest. And when they come out to you, you eat them.
The wolf's eyes even flared up from these words. He snapped his teeth with joy and asked the pig:
- What are your piglets' names?
- The older one's name is Time, the middle one's name is Warm, and the younger piglet's name is Strong, - the pig answers the wolf.
- All right, - said the gray wolf, - I'll let you go home, and when evening comes, I'll come to the ravine for your piglets.
- Just be sure to come, don't deceive the old woman, the pig tells him. - And now I will feed my piglets so that they will be even fatter in the evening, - she said so and ran home.
- I'll come, how can I not come! - said the wolf and went into the dark forest.
Runs and thinks: “Well, this old pig is stupid! She gave me all her children, and she is also afraid that I will not come!”
And the pig ran to her yard, picked up little piglets from the puddle, fed them milk and led them to the hut. There she laid them on straw beds, locked the door tightly, and lay down herself next to the piglets.
And when evening came, a wolf came running from the dark forest and shouted:
- Hey, old pig! Tell Piglet Time to come and play blind man's blind man.
Then the pig from the sakli answers him:
- The time has already passed, O gray wolf! I put that piglet to sleep on a soft bed.
The wolf got angry, snapped his teeth and shouted again:
- Hey, old pig! Tell the little pig Warmly, let him come to the ravine with me to play hide and seek!
- It's warm in my hut, and my piglets are already sleeping soundly on straw beds! - again the pig answers the wolf.
The wolf jumped up in anger and shouted throughout the ravine:
- Hey, you old pig! Tell the youngest pig Strong, let him come play with dolls with me!
And the pig answers him:
- The door of my sakli is firmly closed, and the evil wolf will never enter it. Get out, grey, into the forest and be smarter next time!
- Wait, you will fall into my mouth! cried the wolf.
He screamed, howled, snapped his teeth and ran away along the forest path.
[2] Waterskin - sheepskin bag.
Literature: Golden jug. Tales of the peoples of the Soviet Union. M.: Detgiz, 1952. - 132 p.
Fig. A. Teodoronsky
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Russian folk tale "The Pig and the Wolf"
Animals often become heroes of Russian folk tales.
They are like speaking surnames or nicknames, in other books, they are able to tell about the characters, even if the inquisitive mind has not yet read a single line. For example, upon hearing the Long Noses, a man with a nose immediately appears before his eyes, longer than that of other people. And after reading Korotkonogov, the imagination draws a short young man with short legs.
The same analogy works with animals. Having met Lisa on the pages of a children's story, you expect to read about a dodgy and cunning minx. The bear is usually powerful, large and very often stupid, the Rooster is a bully, etc. The main characters of this folk tale lend themselves to the same principle. The pig here is dishonest, old and slow. The wolf, as always, is angry, cruel and gluttonous.
Summary of the text
The cunning animal decided to feast on the owner's goods, wanted to eat straw and pick flowers. Such behavior did not go unpunished, she was overtaken by an evil wolf.
The pig wanted to save herself, and for her deliverance, she promised the Wolf to bring a herd of pigs. But the predator insisted on his own and ate the insidious fat woman.
After reading this children's story, one can come to the following conclusions:
— You should never behave like a pig, namely, put others under attack for your own benefit. Especially as the main anti-heroine did it - to bring defenseless pigs under mortal danger.
— One must respect everyone around. (In this story, the Pig does not respect anyone around, not the owners, whose land she destroyed, not her fellow pigs, just like her).
— It is better not to walk at night, especially without an escort. Indeed, perhaps if the Pig had not walked in splendid isolation, at night, the fairy tale could have ended differently.
- You should not go to places where danger can obviously await.
This children's story is a great example of how not to behave and what not to do. After reading it, the child will understand that bad deeds always lead to sad consequences, sometimes because of them you can lose not only property, but also, as in this case, life.
The wolf here is also not the most positive character, because. committed a bad deed, but against the background of the deeds of the pig, it looks more profitable, which led to irreversible consequences for it. Therefore, in order not to encounter this, you must always obey your parents, do not spoil other people's property and do not wander at night.
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There was an old pig, she didn't go anywhere during the day from the yard; night came - the pig left the yard. She passed the master's lane, fell into the neighbor's; plucked flowers, threw straws. Where did the old old man come from, the gray wolf, raised his tail, gave it to the pig with his forehead:
— Hello, dear wife, pregnant pig! Why are you wandering and wandering? Here the wolf eats the sheep.
The end of the pig is coming.
Don't eat me, wolf, don't eat me, gray! I'll bring you a herd of pigs.
