Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) Author. Butler wrote more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, He is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs" in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that soon start proliferating geometrically.5” x 3” card signed, with a sketch of a pig, “Ellis Parker Butler (‘Pigs is Pigs’ Flushing NY Nov 15, 1923.” There is an autograph quote, initialled, with another pig sketch, on the reverse.”Pigs is Pigs in Flushing, And Pigs is Pigs in Cork, But Pigs Ain’t Pigs in butchers’ shops Because their Pigs is Pork EPB.”There are two small tape stains in the left margin.