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The Piggy Bank. By: Giovanni. Dogs bury bones. Squirrels gather nuts to last through the winter. Camels store food and water so they can travel many days across deserts. But do pigs save anything? No! Pigs save nothing. They bury nothing. They store nothing.
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The Piggy Bank By: Giovanni
Dogs bury bones.Squirrels gather nuts to last through the winter.Camels store food and water so they can travel many days across deserts.But do pigs save anything? No! Pigs save nothing. They bury nothing. They store nothing.
Story #1In the summer of 1568, an artist called Jose Pygg was thinking of ideas for another piece of artwork. He was a pig farmer and had many pigs. One day, Jose’s son Pedro was taking care of the pigs when suddenly their only girl pig Tanya had a litter. Pedro was so excited he had left to tell his father. When he came back they went to take a look at Tanya and its litter. But then they had seen the kids they had also seen that Tanya had died. It was their first ever pig they have owned. When it happened, it gave an idea for Jose. In honor of their first and only girl pig they’ve ever had, Jose decided to make a hollow pig sculpture to represent the beloved pig. He then had to come up with ideas for what to put inside the wooden hollow pig. They had decided to put their beloved thing they had ever owned or what Tanya loved inside the sculpture. So Pedro and Jose had put in their first dollar they had ever owned. The story became and still is famous for many years. But now over the ages the people have now changed the wooden pig into a glass pig. People still respect poor Tanya and its story.
Story # 2So why do we save our coins in a piggy bank? The answer: Because someone made a mistake. During the Middle Ages, in about the fifteenth century, metal was expensive and seldom used for household wares. Instead, dishes and pots were made of an economical clay called pygg. Whenever housewives could save an extra coin, they dropped it into one of their clay jars. They called this their pygg bank or their pyggy bank.Over the next two hundred to three hundred years, people forgot that “pygg” referred to the earthenware material. In the nineteenth century when English potters received request for pyggy banks, they produced banks like a pig. Of course, the pigs appealed to the customers and delighted children.
