Last one home is a green pig

This is another image from my "Goddess " book called "Sweet Slumber". The quote is, "Oh, sweet slumber! When the dreams are too choice to awaken." I don't know who to credit the quote with, although it does seem a bit Shakespearish. There is no connect to this image and the title for today's blog. In case you were wondering. The title is from a book from our (the Mondoy kids) childhood. Yes, that IS the title of the book. The author is Edith Thacher Hurd and the artist is Clement Hurd. It was published in 1959 by Harper and Row and is a development and enlargement of an idea used in a book entitled THE RACE. In the book, the duck challenges the monkey to race each other home. During the race, of course each one would find a way to give themselves an advantage over the other (by hitching a ride on bikes, trains, boats, planes, and so forth). The duck lost the race and upon loosing, asked the monkey if he looked like a green pig. The monkey says, "Oh, no, you look like a duck. But of course I DID win." "Yes," said the Duck. "You did, but not by much. Let's have another race tomorrow." It was one of our favorites because of the theme of a race. I have four brothers and boys are competitive, no matter what. Whenever we were headed back home from hiking and playing around in the gully or the farther reaches of our yard or property, we would often say, "Last one home is a green pig!". That was the gauntlet being thrown in to see who could be the first one home. It made the game of racing home much more exciting because no one wanted to be a green pig! I don't know if there was a message or moral to the story. If there was, I suppose it would be that whether we win or loose a competition, it is just a game and we shouldn't let it change us. After all, no one looks like a green pig, do they?