TEN LITTLE PIGS MEET SAD END

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 35

TEN LITTLE PIGS MEET SAD END

The tangled fates of ten little Nor-

wegian pigs, who fought not one but three Big Bad Wolves of Red-Tape with less success than their three brothers of movie fame, have set all Scandinavia laughing, states the "New York Times."

A Danish peasant, who had lived in Norway for several years, decided to visit his old parents in Randers. The old couple were planning to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and in order to contribute to the festivities the son resolved to bring along ten little pigs from his own pigsty.

Man and pigs arrived happily in Randers, but here Big Bad Wolf No. 1 popped up. The Danish State Railways refused to let the little pigs pass the Customhouse barriers without a permit from the Danish Currency Control Bureau. The owner of the pigs applied for an import licence and left the pigs in tl a care of the State Railways. The" licence was refused, however, and the disappointed son ordered the pigs returned to his pigsty in Norway.

Right here Big Bad Wolf No. 2 turned up. According to Norwegian

import regulations no living animals may be carried into the country. Back went the little pigs to the improvised pigsty at the Randers railway station.

In his despair, the owner made up his mind to part with.the porkers. He presented them to a kind-hearted rector and asked him to have the animals slaughtered and distributed among the poor and jobless of Randers.

Big Bad Wolf No. 3, howefer, lay in wait. Meat regulations in Denmark are very stringent. So the kind-hearted rector had to refuse the gift. .

At this point the owher<of the pigs lost patience and told the State Railways that they might keep the pigs. The railways were' left five to ten kroner daily the poorer owing to the necessity of feeding the pigs.

At last hope dawned. A Greek, ship anchored up in the harbour of Rariders, and as Greek sailors prefer living animals to canned meat the1 railways succeeded in selling the pigs to the captain. .... :

Finally the ten little Norwegian pigs set out on their voyage to Greece. The next afternoon a cable from Handlers stated that the ship had foundered.