But though the house rattled and shook, the wind blew mostly through the spaces between the straw, and blow as he might, the wolf could not make the house fall down. And just as the wolf was about to give up and move on, the first little pig opened the door and invited him in for corn and potatoes.
It may be remembered from a previous sidebar that Strachey was also the very same man who brought the tale of a shipwreck back to England which subsequently inspired Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest".