 Thomas Hardy describes the killing of a pig in his 1895 novel "Jude the Obscure".Pigs have featured in children's books since at least 1840, when "Three Little Pigs" appeared in print; the story has appeared in many different versions such as Disney's 1933 film and Roald Dahl's 1982 "Revolting Rhymes".Even earlier is the popular 18th-century English nursery rhyme and fingerplay, "This Little Piggy", frequently in film and literature, such as the Warner Brothers cartoons "A Tale of Two Kitties" (1942) and "A Hare Grows In Manhattan" (1947) which use the rhyme to comic effect.