This is the first page of a early version of Charlotte's Web, which E.B. White later changed. When E.B. White had gotten his story right he knew it, because he saw lights and heard bells when he had finished it!!
See Gherman's E.B. White: Some Writer!
It says:
(Used with permission by Joel and Allene White. All of E.B. White's papers are now located at the Cornell University Library.)"Chapter 1 The Barn
A barn can have a horse in it, and a barn can have a cow in it, and a barn can have hens scratching in the chaff and swallows flying in and out through the door -- but if a barn hasn't got a pig in it, it is hardly worth talking about. I am very glad to say that Mr. Zuckerman's barn had a pig in it, and therefore I fel free to talk about it as much as I want to. The pig's...
name was Wilbur. He was small and white, except when he was dirty then he was small and brown. Wilbur did not get dirty on purpose. but he lived in the lower part of the barn where..... "
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