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>From: "Tzivia Adler" <tadler at yeshivanet.com>
>
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>don't be so sure.
>once upon a time, three boys left the farm.  one built a house of straw, 
>one of sticks,and one of bricks.
>now, why did they leave the farm in the first place?  and if bricks are so 
>readily available, why would anyone build from straw or sticks?  and did 
>anyone really ever build with straw?
>sigh.  why don't little kids just enjoy the pretty pictures?
>and why do i have a story like this trying to break out of my brain?
>

They left the farm to seek their fortune. Most farms would only support one 
owner and the hired hands.

Straw bale houses are nice and warm, as nice as adobe (aka 'mud huts' for 
anyone who reads national geographic or middle eastern travelogues.) You can 
google for their construction.

Wattle-and-daub houses were a fairly common form of peasant building.

Bricks were not that readily available - they were basically a middle-class 
building material made in the city in a factory. So Practical Pig had to be 
fairly affluent and have worked in the city; his brothers remained peasants. 
Though the house of sticks could have been in the city slums.

Ezekiel T. Wolfe doesn't have to be a backwoods ne'er-do-well. He could be 
one of the budding capitalist class.