“Little pig, little pig, let me come in.
To which the pig answered: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.
The wolf answered to that, Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the house down.”

—  Joseph Jacobs, book English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs

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