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Pigs Is Pigs

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Author(s):Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):Will Crawford
Publisher(s): The Railway Appliances Co.
Year Published: 1905
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Fiction - Short Story
Humorous
Pets
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 15
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 707730565

Description

Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company determines that guinea pigs should pay the same freight as hogs, not pets. The consignee refuses to pay and Mike ends up with a rapidly multiplying stock of guinea pigs.

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Pigs Is Pigs (1906)

Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company determines that guinea pigs should pay the same freight as hogs, not pets. The consignee refuses to pay and Mike ends up with a rapidly multiplying stock of guinea pigs. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: McClure Phillips & Co.
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