There is a 19th century version from Scotland; "
The Three Wee Pigs." The protagonists were called
Dennis,
Biddy, and
Rex, and they were kicked out of the old sow's house because Dennis had accidentally stepped on one of the new piglets. They got caught in a horrible snow and rain storm; when Biddy saw a cart of straw he quickly built a house. Soon they bumped into a pig named Jimmie McLaughlin, "who was at school with Dennis. " Jimmie felt sorry for them and gave them some wooden slats. ("Son, school is where you'll make the important connections.") Finally, a man came by with bricks and Rex built a house out of them. After the requisite huffing and puffing, the wolf knocks down the first two houses but gets stuck in the chimney of the brick house. "So they hooked him down the chimney, and cut him up into collops, and roasted him for their supper." The story concludes. "But there are no houses up in the wood now, for the pigs were all taken to the old people's houses, and there they died."
https://books.google.com/books?id=srQCEQdZ1M0C&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=Dennis,+Biddy,+and+Rex&source=bl&ots=_Fai3nZL80&sig=44NPLWB9Rox_TuGvKf0irwRYL44&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ_q2_jtPOAhWJ4SYKHU-8AYsQ6AEIFDAA#v=onepage&q=Dennis%2C%20Biddy%2C%20and%20Rex&f=false
There is another 19th century version from England; "
Three Little Pigs." (According to an authoritative collection called 'A Dictionary of British Folk Tales,' edited by Katherine O. Briggs.) The protagonists were called
Browny,
Whitey, and
Blacky In this version, also told at least as far back as 19th century England, the language was explicitly moralistic. In this case, the three pigs were Browny, who "spent most of his time rolling and wallowing about in the mud," Whitey, who was gluttonous and greedy, and "the youngest and best looking, Blacky," who is "a good, nice little pig, neither dirty nor greedy. He had nice dainty ways (for a pig), and his skin was always as smooth and shining as black satin." One day the old sow tells her kids that before she dies she wants them to build houses and quizzes them on how they would do it. Browny says "a house of mud," to mom's disappointment. She asks Whitey. "A house of cabbage," answers Whitey, with a mouth full, and scarcely raising her snout out of the trough in which she was grubbing for some potato-parings." "Foolish, foolish child!" said the mother pig. Finally she asked Blacky, who says, "A house of brick, please mother, as it will be warm in winter and cool in summer, and safe all the year round." The predator in this version is a fox, not a wolf. The fox quickly burrows his way through the mudwalls--no huffing or puffing--and carries poor Browny" off with him to his den." The fox then eats through the cabbage walls and carries poor "trembling, shivering" Whitey away to join her brother. When the fox fails to scratch through the brick wall, he goes down the chimney and gets captured, boiled, and eaten. Then, Blacky goes to rescue his siblings." As he approached the den he heard piteous grunts and squeals from his poor little brother and sister who lived in constant terror of the fox killing and eating them." He busts them out, they joyfully thank him, and they live happily ever after in Blacky's brick house. In case the moral is not yet clear, the story ends, "And Browny quite gave up rolling in the mud and Whitey ceased to be greedy, for they never forgot how nearly these faults had brought them to an untimely end."
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lang/andrew/l26gr/chapter10.html
Disney, it seems, combined the basic plot devices of the first 19th century version --huffing, puffing, wolves, straw, sticks -- with the clear moral dictates of the second. The
Disney version of the "
Three Little Pigs" was produced in 1933. Pig number one, "
Fifer Pig," sings, "I build my house of straw, I build my house of hay, I toot my flute, I don't give a hoot, I play around all day." The "
Fiddler Pig" sings, "I build my house of sticks, I build my house of twigs. With a hey diddle diddle, I play my fiddle, and dance all kinds of jigs." The dour third pig, named "the
Practical Pig," sings, "I build my house of stone, I build my house of bricks. I have no chance to sing and dance, because work and play don't mix." Piper and Fiddler are openly contemptuous of their brother but he reacts with mature self-confidence, shaking his trowel at them and singing, "You can play and laugh and fiddle. Don't think you can make me sore. I'll be safe and you'll be sorry when the wolf comes to your door." They mock him and then break into the famous rendition of the song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf."
http://www.kennythepirate.com/2013/01/23/limited-time-magic-long-lost-friends-week-robin-hood-friar-tuck-prince-john-and-sherrif-of-nottingham/fiddler-fifer-practical-pig-big-bad-wolf-4-2/
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