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The Three Little Pigs

아기 돼지 삼 형제

Joseph Jacobs (1890)

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Once there was a mother pig with three little pigs, and one day she told them it was time to leave home and build houses of their own.The first little pig met a man carrying straw and asked for enough of it to build a house.The man gave him the straw, and the little pig built his house in a single afternoon.

That evening, a hungry wolf knocked on the straw house door and said, “Little pig, little pig, let me come in.”“Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!” the little pig answered.“Then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in,” said the wolf, and he did.

The first little pig ran as fast as he could to his brother’s house, which was built of sticks.The wolf soon found them both and huffed and puffed until the stick house fell down too.The two little pigs ran together to their third brother’s house, which was built of bricks.

The wolf huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he huffed, but the brick house would not fall down.Growing angrier by the minute, the wolf decided to climb down the chimney instead.But the clever third little pig had a big pot of water boiling on the fire, right below the chimney.

The wolf fell straight into the pot with a tremendous splash.He jumped out with a yelp, dripping wet, and ran off into the forest as fast as his legs could carry him.No one in that part of the forest ever saw the wolf again.

The three little pigs lived together happily in the strong brick house from that day on.And whenever they told the story, they always agreed: it pays to build something that lasts.

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옛날에 아기 돼지 세 마리를 둔 엄마 돼지가 있었는데, 어느 날 이제 집을 떠나 각자의 집을 지을 때가 되었다고 말했어요. 첫째 아기 돼지는 짚을 나르는 사람을 만나 집을 지을 만큼 짚을 달라고 부탁했어요. 남자는 짚을 주었고, 첫째 아기 돼지는 하루 오후 만에 집을 다 지었어요.

그날 저녁, 배고픈 늑대가 짚으로 만든 집 문을 두드리며 말했어요. "아기 돼지야, 아기 돼지야, 나 좀 들어가게 해 줘." "턱에 난 털 한 올만큼도 안 돼!" 아기 돼지가 대답했어요. "그럼 내가 훅 불고, 훅 불어서 네 집을 날려 버릴 거야." 늑대가 말했고, 정말로 그렇게 했어요.

첫째 아기 돼지는 있는 힘껏 달려 나뭇가지로 지은 둘째 형제의 집으로 도망쳤어요. 늑대는 곧 둘을 찾아냈고, 훅훅 불어서 나뭇가지 집마저 무너뜨렸어요. 두 아기 돼지는 함께 벽돌로 지은 셋째 형제의 집으로 달려갔어요.

늑대는 훅 불고 훅 불고, 또 훅 불고 훅 불었지만, 벽돌집은 무너지지 않았어요. 점점 화가 난 늑대는 대신 굴뚝으로 내려가기로 했어요. 하지만 영리한 셋째 아기 돼지는 굴뚝 바로 아래 벽난로에 물이 펄펄 끓는 큰 냄비를 놓아두었어요.

늑대는 엄청난 물소리를 내며 냄비 속으로 곧장 떨어졌어요. 그는 깨갱 소리를 지르며 흠뻑 젖은 채 뛰쳐나와, 다리가 움직이는 한 빠르게 숲속으로 도망쳤어요. 그 숲 그쪽에서는 그 후로 아무도 늑대를 다시 보지 못했어요.

세 아기 돼지는 그날부터 튼튼한 벽돌집에서 함께 행복하게 살았어요. 그리고 이 이야기를 할 때마다 그들은 늘 이렇게 입을 모았어요. 오래가는 것을 짓는 게 결국 이득이라고.

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Comprehension Check

1. What did the wolf do to the straw and stick houses?

2. Why couldn't the wolf blow down the third house?

3. What happened when the wolf tried to come down the chimney?

Vocabulary

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straw

짚

The first little pig met a man carrying straw and asked for enough of it to build a house.

첫째 아기 돼지는 짚을 나르는 사람을 만나 집을 지을 만큼 짚을 달라고 부탁했어요.

Your Summary

In 1–2 sentences, say how the third little pig's brick house and clever thinking saved all three pigs from the wolf.

Source: Adapted from "The Story of the Three Little Pigs" in Joseph Jacobs's English Fairy Tales (1890; Project Gutenberg #7439, long in the public domain). The original ending, in which the wolf eats the first two pigs and is then boiled and eaten himself, is softened here: the first two pigs escape to their brothers' houses, and the wolf is merely scalded and frightened off for good. This simplified retelling and its Korean translation are original text written for SeoJae Story.

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