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by: Ellis Parker Butler
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781410103222
ISBN: 1410103226
Label: Fredonia Books (NL)
Manufacturer: Fredonia Books (NL)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 52
Publication Date: 2003-07
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Sales Rank: 1068915
Studio: Fredonia Books (NL)
Editorial Review:
Book Description:
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea pig population shows what can happen when ignorance and bureaucrats get together and decide its fate when anyone with just plain common sense can solve the problem in less than one minute.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Humor classic
Pigs is Pigs is Butler's first and most successful book of humor, the story of an inflexible railway clerk who insists on charging the shipping rates for pigs on a crate bearing a couple of guinea pigs. All is well until the aggrieved recipient refuses delivery and the guinea pigs start to breed at a ferocious rate in the railroad station. This is one of the era's most amusing children's works.
Rating: - If you know the pet, you will love the read!
This is a great little story that begins with a typical laugh at beaurocracy gone wrong and gradually swinging over to a great story about the multiplication of the guinea pig.
It builds to an hilarious climax that will have you in stiches.
This will not appeal to all senses of humour, but to those it does it will hold a great memory once read.
Rating:  - Pretty Entertaining
I thought this book was light of content, making it easy to read, enjoyable, amusing and fun. The story is based around a simple misunderstanding that escalates to huge proportions. A fun book for most any age.
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