Storytelling Week 1

Pig Farm Antics

                         To market, to market, to buy a fat pig;
                     Home again, home again, dancing a jig
                         Ride to the market to buy a fat hog;
                     Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.
                                                        (Original Nursery Rhyme) 

There once was a boy was dream was to be a Broadway dancer.  He would fantasize about being on stage.  Anytime he would talk about it, his parents would laugh in his face.  They would tell him to be realistic and crush his dreams.  His whole family had been farmers for years.  The boy was an eighth generation farmer so they expected nothing less. The boy's parents wanted him to do his daily chores and nothing else.  His jobs on the farm consisted of taking care of the livestock and harvesting the grain.  He lived a very boring and repetitive lifestyle.  Each and every morning a rooster would wake him up to do his chores.  The boy never got the opportunity to sleep in.  His mother would send him weekly to the market to pick up seeds and a brand new pig.  He would dance all the way to the market.  Everyone in the streets would stare in awe.  From children, to the elderly, everyone would wait on their porch to see the boy's marvelous dancing.  The boy would twirl, jig, and jump.  He would finally arrive at the market to pick up the pig and the bystanders would sit around and wait until he headed home again.  The boy would ask for the fattest and pinkest pig they had.  When the lady would hand him one he would pick it up and dance all the way back to the farm with the fat pig in his arms.  The boy would get compliments left and right.  He would always have the time of his life.  He would come back home and his parents would cheer about the beautiful pig her brought back.  The boy could only dream of his parents cheering for him while he is on stage dancing his heart out.                                                

Authors note: I chose the nursery rhyme above because  I thought it was cute.  I created my story off if this rhyme by making up a life about a little boy you wanted to be a broadway dancer.  That is where "jiggety- jog" and "jig" come in.  Those words remind me of dancing and skipping.  I incorporated the "pig" or "hog" mentioned by making the boy a farmer and caretaker of livestock..  The original nursery rhyme could be thought of his weekly routine.

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The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke