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From: Quadrant
Date: 20080301
Author:Coman, B.J.

IN THE Victorian Readers Eighth Book, nestled between "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Passing of Arthur", is Charles Lamb's story "The Origin of Roast Pork". The "great, lubberly boy", Bo-bo, is playing with fire under the house and accidentally burns it down. In the process, several piglets are killed. He pokes at one of them, burning his finger in the process with an adhering piece of hot crackling. As any young boy might, he sucks the wounded finger. The rest, as they say, is history. Soon, houses were being burnt down everywhere and both they and pigs became exceedingly scarce ...

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