Pigs Is Pigs

Mike Flannery, the agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the desk in the company's office in Westcote and shook his fist. Mr. Morehouse, angry and red, stood on the other side of the desk shaking with fury. The argument had been long and hot. At last Mr. Morehouse had become speechless. The cause of the trouble lay on the desk between the two men. It was a box with two guinea pigs inside! ELLIS PARKER BUTLER [1869-1937] was born in Iowa. He worked as a banker in New York City and wrote part-time. His writing output was phenomenal: 30 books and more than 2,000 stories, poems, and articles. From 1906 through 1935 he contributed stories to Woman's Home Companion. Additionally, he wrote for two-hundred-twenty-five other magazines. He was a founder of the Author's League of America.