Versos English Albert Bigelow Paine A Narrow Escape

English poem

A Narrow Escape

by (1861–1937)

Listen in the reader

Two piggies went to market All on a market day, But when the butcher caught them They wished they'd stayed away.

"Oh, Piggy-wiggy, fare you well, Our ribs will soon be spare." And they quickly ran away, And now they don't go there.