Tamworth Pig Stories by Gene Kemp

Author:Gene Kemp [Gene Kemp]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571357758
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2019-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

‘And now I’ve got another surprise for you. Come into Pig House,’ Tamworth said.

They went inside, and there on a box stood a transistor radio. Tamworth turned the knob and music blared forth.

‘It’s a beauty. Where did you get it?’ Mr Rab asked.

‘The Vegetarian Society presented it to me for my work in trying to stop people eating meat.’

He looked very pleased with himself.

‘I want you to listen to the news, which is on in a minute. Sit down all of you.’

They sat down and listened quietly. At last the music stopped and the newsreader came on. He read out several items of news and Mr Rab began to fidget because he found it boring, but Hedgecock nudged him sharply. Then came the item Tamworth was waiting for and he turned up the volume.

‘After a debate in Parliament yesterday, it was decided to start a campaign for “Grow more food” in Britain. A committee has been set up to promote food expansion and it will be advised by Tamworth Pig of Baggs’s Farm.’

‘There,’ Tamworth said, and switched off the radio.

‘Why, Tamworth, you’ve gone pink under your bristles!’ Blossom said.

‘Yes, I’m very pleased that my small efforts have not gone unnoticed. And I owe so much of this to you, dear friends.’

He took the lid off a cardboard box and emptied out several parcels, all wrapped in blue and red paper decorated with white dancing pigs.

‘So I have presents for you all. The Vicar’s wife was kind enough to purchase them for me.’

Blossom opened hers first and there inside was the prettiest, floppiest doll ever, with hair so soft you wanted to rub your face in it. She wore a little white gown with a blue ribbon round it to match her eyes.

‘Oh, oh,’ was all Blossom could say.

She felt as if she could cry, it was so beautiful.

For Thomas there was a gloriously complicated train set with lots of points, gradients, stations, signals, engines and rolling stock. Mr Rab had a book containing hundreds and hundreds of poems and for Hedgecock there was a compendium of games, including chess, draughts, ludo, snakes and ladders, tiddly winks and dominoes.

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