Charlotte's Web - Chapter One - Before Breakfast

<p>In Chapter 1, we meet the Arable family. Mr. Arable has just helped deliver a litter of piglets and one of them is a runt. He's going to kill the runt because they usually don't thrive. But his daughter Fern interferes with this and insists she be allowed to help the runt grow. Her father agrees and brings the runt to the house and Fern begins to nurture Wilbur, the name she gives the piglet.</p>