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Please don't kill it! she sobbed. It's unfair. Mr. Arable stopped walking.

Fern, he said gently, you will have to learn to control yourself. Control myself? yelled Fern.

This is a matter of life and death, and you talk about controlling myself. Tears ran down her cheeks and she took hold of the ax

and tried to pull it out of her father's hand. Fern, said Mr. Arable,

I know more about raising a litter of pigs than you do. A weakling makes trouble. Now run along!

But it's unfair, cried Fern. The pig couldn't help being born small, could it?

If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?