Two Heads and One Fat Pig
Once upon a time when children believed in talking pigs there was a fat pig that had two heads, and this pig talked too much. And one day a man came walking down the road and on his shoulder was an axe gleaming silver. And why don’t you try to guess what he was looking for? If you want to know what he was looking for, I’ll tell you. He was looking for a fat pig just like Two Heads.
And when he saw Two Heads and how fat he was he started to open the pig pen, to get him. But when he got the pen opened Two Heads ran out of his pen and the man ran after him.
Pretty soon Two Heads came to a forest. So he looked for a place to hide and to sleep. Pretty soon he found a secret cave. He went in and found a place that the man would not find him.
2 o’clock in the afternoon the man came by, but he did not see the cave so he went on. Pretty soon the man met a lady. He asked the lady if she had seen a fat pig.
The lady said, “No, I have not seen a fat pig.”
So the man walked on.
Only back where Two Heads was, when he saw that the man was gone, he slipped out of the cave and took a shortcut and got to Pigsville before the man did and ordered some pigs to fix a grand dinner for the man so he would not eat Two Heads. So when the man got to Pigsville, two pigs were on guard.
And so they took the man to the table and told him all about the feast. And so they all sat down at the table and ate.
Brian Herbert
February 1, 1955