Extract: Pig Trotters

 

We know that for more than 40 years school stories dominated boys’ story papers in the UK at the start of the last century. Here’s one of the most unusual of their kind. It involves Trig Potters who has a speech infliction known as Spoonerism which makes you twist your words around. So Trig Potters was apt to call himself Pig Trotters and that’s how the story got its name.

And that’s pretty much all there is to say really. This example is from the Rover in 1927. I have no idea how long the series lasted but I’d imagine it ran out of steam fairly quickly.

As published in The Rover, 13 August 1927

Credit: D C Thomson,

 

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