Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey

Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey

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name = Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey
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author = P. G. Wodehouse
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Short story
publisher = Liberty
release_date = 9 July 1927
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media_type = Print (Magazine)
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"Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the 9 July 1927 issue of "Liberty", and in the United Kingdom in the August 1927 "Strand". Part of the Blandings Castle canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection "Blandings Castle" (1935), although the story takes place sometime between the events of "Leave it to Psmith" (1923) and "Summer Lightning" (1929).

Plot summary

Lord Emsworth, keen that his fat pig the Empress of Blandings should win the 87th annual Shropshire Agricultural Show, is distraught when his pigman, Wellbeloved, is sent to prison for fourteen days for being drunk and disorderly in a Market Blandings inn.

The pig immediately goes off her feed, and with the vet baffled, Emsworth is in no state to listen to his sister Connie's bleatings about his niece Angela breaking off her engagement from Lord Heacham in favour of the quite unsuitable James Belford, who Emsworth himself always liked, being a friend of the lad's father, a local parson.

Emsworth, still distracted about his pig, is sent to London to have stern words with Belford; dining with him at the Senior Conservative Club, conversation turns to pigs, and Belford, having spent two years on a Nebraska farm, proceeds to impress Emsworth with his knowledge of pig-calls of all States. He teaches Emsworth the master call, the "pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey" to which all pigs will respond, and Emsworth heads home happily.

Falling asleep on the train, Emsworth forgets the call, but while talking to Angela in the castle grounds, is reminded of it by the sound of Mrs Twemlow's gramophone. He, Beach and Angela all try the call on the Empress, but to no avail; just when all looks black, Belford arrives, shows them how the call should really sound, and to everyone's delight the Empress tucks heartily into her food. She goes on, of course, to win the contest.

Television

The story was adapted for television by the BBC, broadcast in March 1967 as the fifth of six half-hour episodes, under the title "Pig Hoo-oo-ey!". The series starred Ralph Richardson as Lord Emsworth and Stanley Holloway as Beach. The master tapes of all but the first part were erased, and no known copies of this episode exist.

ee also

* List of Wodehouse's Blandings shorts
* Complete list of the Blandings stories

External links

*imdb title | id=0760335 | title="Pig Hoo-oo-ey!" (1967)


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