# Pigs is Pigs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pigs-is-pigs/744344 "2016-01-27T03:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pigs-is-pigs/744344/1 "2016-01-27T03:34:15Z")
Way back in the mists of time (about 1960) PT was given a birthday present of the [Readers Digest Junior Omnibus](http://omnibus.chebucto.org/). In the passage half a century, I have lost track of my copy and recently **MumofPT** has asked me if I could find the text of the “Pigs is Pigs” story as published in the Omnibus. Now I can find the original 1905 text by Ellis Parker Butler easily enough. But the condensed version is proving a harder nut to crack. Would anybody able to point me in the right direction? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pigs-is-pigs/744344/2 "2016-01-27T05:46:37Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Way back in the mists of time (about 1960) PT was given a birthday present of the [Readers Digest Junior Omnibus](http://omnibus.chebucto.org/). > > In the passage half a century, I have lost track of my copy and recently **MumofPT** has asked me if I could find the text of the “Pigs is Pigs” story as published in the Omnibus. > > Now I can find the original 1905 text by Ellis Parker Butler easily enough. But the condensed version is proving a harder nut to crack. > > Would anybody able to point me in the right direction? The version on project Gutenberg is only a few pages. Is the condensed version really much shorter? > **[Pigs is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2004#)** > > Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pigs-is-pigs/744344/3 "2016-01-27T06:14:36Z")
Thank you for your assistance. The link provided is (I believe) the original text . IIRC the Omnibus version was about half that length and most of Flannery’s vernacular was in more standard English. Could be wrong though. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pigs-is-pigs/744344/4 "2016-01-27T07:27:16Z")
Disney did a good treatment of [Pigs is Pigs.](https://youtu.be/GYXlF3sa9xs) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pigs-is-pigs/744344/5 "2016-01-28T06:21:40Z")
> [@astro](#): > > The version on project Gutenberg is only a few pages. Is the condensed version really much shorter? > > [Pigs is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler | Project Gutenberg](http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2004#) The acceptable use of the word “dago” was interesting. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pigs-is-pigs/744344/6 "2016-01-28T06:25:00Z")
The acceptable use of the word "[dago"](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dago) in the story was interesting. > [@](#): > > noun, plural dagos, dagoes. (often initial capital letter) Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. > 1.a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent. > [@](#): > > “Pigs is pigs,” he declared firmly. “Guinea-pigs, or dago pigs or Irish pigs is all the same to the Interurban Express Company an’ to Mike Flannery. Th’ nationality of the pig creates no differentiality in the rate, Misther Morehouse! 'Twould be the same was they Dutch pigs or Rooshun pigs. Mike Flannery,” he added, “is here to tind to the expriss > business and not to hould conversation wid dago pigs in sivinteen languages fer to discover be they Chinese or Tipperary by birth an’ nativity.”