Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 
The Pig Brother, and Other Fables and Stories 
A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth School Year

The Pig Brother, and Other Fables and Stories is a children’s book by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards. Excerpt: ‘children were set to reap in a wheat-field. The wheat was yellow as gold, the sun shone gloriously, and the butterflies flew hither and thither. Some of the children worked better, and some worse; but there was one who ran here and there after the butterflies that fluttered about his head, and sang as he ran. By and by evening came, and the Angel of the wheat-field called to the children and said, ‘Come now to the gate, and bring your sheaves with you.’