I am afraid this weighed more
with him than the wrong or injustice of his schemes.
At last it occurred to him that Mr. Frost kept a couple of pigs.
To let them out secretly at night would be annoying to Frank, as
they would probably stray quite a distance, and thus a tedious
pursuit would be made necessary. Perhaps they might never be
found, in which case John felt that he should not grieve much.
Upon this scheme John finally settled as the one promising the
most amusement to himself and annoyance to his enemy, as he chose
to regard Frank. He felt quite averse, however, to doing the work
himself. In the first place, it must be done by night, and he
could not absent himself from the house at a late hour without
his father's knowledge. Again, he knew there was a risk of being
caught, and it would not sound very well if noised abroad that
the son of Squire Haynes had gone out by night and let loose a
neighbor's pigs.
He cast about in his mind for a confederate, and after awhile
settled upon a boy named Dick Bumstead.
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