Nursery rhymes, English; Oral tradition -- England
"No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin."
"Then I'll puff, and I'll huff, and I'll blow your house in."
So he huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he huffed, and at last
he blew the house down, and he eat up the little pig.
The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said,
"Please, man, give me those bricks to build a house with;" so the man
gave him the bricks, and he built his house with them. So the wolf
came, as he did to the other little pigs, and said,--
"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."
"No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin."
"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."
Well, he huffed, and he puffed, and he huffed, and he puffed, and he
puffed, and he huffed; but he could _not_ get the house down. When he
found that he could not, with all his huffing and puffing, blow the
house down, he said, "Little pig, I know where there is a nice
field of turnips." "Where?" said the little pig. "Oh, in Mr. Smith's
Home-field, and if you will be ready to-morrow morning I will call for
you, and we will go together, and get some for dinner." "Very well,"
said the little pig, "I will be ready. What time do you mean to go?"
"Oh, at six o'clock." Well, the little pig got up at five, and got the
turnips before the wolf came--(which he did about six)--and who said,
"Little pig, are you ready?" The little pig said, "Ready! I have been,
and come back again, and got a nice pot-full for dinner." The wolf
felt very angry at this, but thought that he would be _up to_ the
little pig somehow or other, so he said, "Little pig, I know
where there is a nice apple-tree." "Where?" said the pig. "Down at
Merry-garden," replied the wolf, "and if you will not deceive me I
will come for you, at five o'clock to-morrow, and we will go together
and get some apples." Well, the little pig bustled up the next morning
at four o'clock, and went off for the apples, hoping to get back
before the wolf came; but he had further to go, and had to climb the
tree, so that just as he was coming down from it, he saw the wolf
coming, which, as you may suppose, frightened him very much. When the
wolf came up he said, "Little pig, what! are you here before me? Are
they nice apples?" "Yes, very," said the little pig. "I will throw you
down one;" and he threw it so far, that, while the wolf was gone to
pick it up, the little pig jumped down and ran home. The next day the
wolf came again, and said to the little pig, "Little pig, there is a
fair at Shanklin this afternoon, will you go?" "Oh yes," said the pig,
"I will go; what time shall you be ready?" "At three," said the wolf.
So the little pig went off before the time as usual, and got to the
fair, and bought a butter-churn, which he was going home with, when he
saw the wolf coming. Then he could not tell what to do. So he got into
the churn to hide, and by so doing turned it round, and it rolled down
the hill with the pig in it, which frightened the wolf so much, that
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