Porkopolis

Tribute & Acclaim

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In the morning of today, when I was come part way to school, when I was come to the ending of the lane, I met a glad surprise. There was my dear pet pig awaiting for me. I gave him joy pats on the nose, and I did call him by name ten times. I was so glad to see him. Being as I got a late start to school, I didn't have enough time to go around by the pig-pen for our morning talk. And there he was awaiting for me, at the ending of the lane. And his name it is Peter Paul Rubens.

Opal Whiteley (1897-1992)
Nature writer and diarist famous for her childhood journal, The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart , originally published in serial form by the Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1920.

The work of teaching and organizing the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals.

George Orwell (1903-1950)
British socio-political author. Animal Farm (1945).