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 THE THREE LITTLE PIGS REVISITED
We all know the tale of the Three Little Pigs. But there's more to the story than you may think, and that is what inspires us to build stronger, safer and cleaner.
What if the Wolf decided to go into another line of work? Read on...
 "After the Big Bad Wolf's enormous appetite had been satisfied by the succulent three course meal, he became pensive. Laying back on a nearby tree stump to pick his teeth, he regarded the three houses in front of him. Straw, sticks and bricks - not quite the way I would do it, he thought.
 In the calm that usually follows a good meal, an idea began to form. The Wolf thought of pressing the straw into the shape of larger bricks, and stacking them in the same pattern as the brick house. And like the stick house, what if he added a strong post and beam frame to house the straw? Could it be that if the pigs had worked together on one house instead of three, that his dinner plans may have been foiled?
You see, this Wolf has spent some time around farmers barns on his constant quest for food. He knew that the straw bales stacked there made for quite a cozy, comfortable refuge from the wind. And once, when one particular herd of cows accidentally kicked over a lantern in their panic, the Wolf was surprised to realize that the straw didn't really alight, but rather smoldered until the farmer arrived to calm the herd.
That's it, thought the Wolf. As luck would have it, a three-lot vacancy became available the very next week, and the Wolf quickly purchased it at a reasonable price in order to test his new theory. Before long, the Wolf was known throughout the region for having built the most comfortable, most attractive, and certainly the strongest house around.
And so the Straw Bale House was born. But the Wolf didn't stop there. He knew an opportunity when he saw it. The Wolf set himself to the task of teaching others of the benefits of this new-found technique, and helped many to build their own straw bale homes. Ironically, his biggest clients were other little pigs who needed protection from other, less enterprising wolves. Besides, it allowed the Wolf to pay homage to those original home builders, and to repent for the fate that he had leveled on them.
The Wolf lived a long and comfortable life in that house, and he has long sinced passed. That first Straw Bale House, however, still stands in the very spot he built it as if it were only yesterday."
THE END
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