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Harriet the hog finds her way home
By Christine Good and Samantha Farley
Harriet the hog was very sad.
She had been captured from her
home in Spain, and had been
brought to America. Although
America was nice, she wanted to
be with her family. So she decid-
ed to find a way to get back
home. She thought for a long
time, but couldn’t think of any-
thing.
Harriet was hungry and lost, so she de-cided to put aside the problem of getting back to her family for a while, and started to sniff out something to eat. Eventually, she came across some yummy looking
eggs just laying on the ground.
Just as she bent down to gather them, she heard a loud chirping noise that scared
her. It was a bird. “Don’t eat my babies, please, it will disrupt the energy flow in our ecosystem,” said the bird. However Harriet
was starving, so she ate them anyway. Leaving the nest behind her, she continued
on her way.
She was still a little hungry, so she started
looking for more food. She came across a
large farm. She decided that a feast of roots
would be delicious, and so she dug up a lot
of the plants for food. Then she saw the
farmer coming. He started yelling, so she
ran.
Now that her belly was full, she could think of
a way to get to Spain. She thought about the
options. Since she had to cross the ocean, she
couldn’t walk. And since the ocean was so vast,
she couldn't swim. So she decided she needed
a boat.
Unfortunately Harriet didn’t own a boat. But
she knew some of the villagers did. So she de-
cided to ask the villagers if she could borrow
one.
When she got to the village, she noticed a lot
of people were giving her an evil look. Some
even seemed to be avoiding her. She decided
to ignore this hostile behavior, and continued
on her quest.
The first house she came too looked very fancy.
The people there looked rich. “They would proba-
bly have a boat”, Harried decided. She knocked
on the door. The man who answered took one
look at Harriet and slammed it shut. Harriet de-
cided that he must have had a bad day.
At the next house, the same thing happened.
Harriet decided that he too had had a bad day.
She kept on going. But at every house she went
to, they were all as uninviting as the first. She
sadly started back towards her home
As she walked along, she noticed a small boy
from the village watching her. She asked him
why the village was so rude, and he told her it
was because she dug up the farms. “Oh,” she
said, and continued walking.
After walking a while, she came upon a poor
looking hut, ready to collapse any minute. She
knocked on the door. A voice from inside
called out “Come in”. She entered, and the
first thing she saw was a poorly dressed man.
He had a long, shaggy beard, and his hair was
rough and tangled. He looked a bit wild, but he
seemed sad.
The man looked at Harriet, and in a grisly voice he
asked, “What do you want?”. Harriet asked him if he
had a boat that he could lend her. He then asked her,
“Why do you want it?”. Harriet told him about her
family in Spain. The man then told her that he was
originally from Spain, and he too wished to go back.
Harriet asked the man why he hadn’t gone back.
He told her about how the boat he had needed
two people to operate it. Harriet asked if she
could help. He said that he had never heard of a
pig helping on a boat, but it seemed possible.
Harriet and the man planned to leave at once. They gathered all of their belongings,
and then they boarded the boat.
As they set off on their voyage, Harriet realized
that she did not know the man’s name. So she
asked. “My name is Malcolm”, he said. For a
while there was an awkward silence on the boat.
To break the silence, Harriet asked Malcolm how
he had gotten to America. He took a deep breath
and started on his story.
He told about getting on the boat to America in-
stead of the one to Greenland, where he was go-
ing to visit his cousins. He told of how he didn’t
have enough money to get back to Spain on the
boat. And he told about how the only boat he
could find was the two person one they were
using.
With Malcolm telling his story, the journey seemed
short. Harriet decided that it was one of the best sto-
ries she had ever heard. She felt the journey was over
too soon.
Finally they arrived in Spain. They docked their
boat, and Harriet let out a big “Yeee Haa!”
because she was so happy to be home again.
After they both found their family they went on
with life. However, they always stayed friends af-
ter that and always helped one another out.
And that’s the story of how Harriet
found her way home.
The End