Editing The Three Little Pigs (section)

==Traditional versions==
"The Three Little Pigs" was included in ''The Nursery Rhymes of England'' (London and New York, c.1886), by [[James Halliwell-Phillipps]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0124.html|title=Three Little Pigs and other folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 124|last=Ashliman|first=Professor D. L.|author-link=D. L. Ashliman|work=Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|access-date=25 July 2010}}</ref> The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in ''English Fairy Tales'' by [[Joseph Jacobs]], first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source.<ref name=Tatar>{{cite book | title = The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales | first = Maria | last = Tatar | publisher = W. W. Norton & Company | year = 2002 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ehzvhjL5_W8C&pg=PA206 | pages = 206–211 | isbn=978-0-393-05163-6}}</ref> The earliest published version of the story is from [[Dartmoor]], [[Devon]], England in 1853, and has three little [[pixie]]s and a fox in place of the three pigs and a wolf. The first pixy had a wooden house:

{{poem quote|"Let me in, let me in", said the fox.
"I won't", was the pixy's answer; "and the door is fastened."<ref>''[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RrbpBtY-A8wC/page/n192/mode/1up English Forests and Forest Trees: Historical, Legendary, and Descriptive]'' (London: Ingram, Cooke, and Company, 1853), pp. 189-90</ref>}}

[[File:Page 69 illustration in English Fairy Tales.png|thumb|Illustration from J. Jacobs, ''English Fairy Tales'' (New York, 1895)]]
The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to "seek out their fortune". The first little pig builds a house out of [[straw]], but the wolf blows it down and devours him. The second little pig builds a house out of [[Branch|sticks]], but the result is the same. Each exchange between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases, namely:

{{poem quote|"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."
"No, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin."
"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."<ref name=Jacobs>{{cite book | title = English Fairy Tales | first = Joseph| last = Jacobs | publisher = Oxford University | year = 1890| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_-EOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA69 | pages = 69}}</ref>}}

The third little pig builds a house out of [[brick]]s, which the wolf fails to blow down. The wolf then attempts to meet the pig at a turnip field, an apple orchard, and a fair, but the pig always arrives early and avoids the wolf. Finally, the infuriated wolf resolves to come down the [[chimney]], whereupon the pig lights a fire under a pot of water on the fireplace. The wolf falls in and is [[Death by boiling|fatally boiled]], avenging the death of his brothers. After cooking the wolf, the pig proceeds to eat him for dinner.