"
"I want you to go some night--the sooner the better--and let them
out, so that when morning comes the pigs will be minus, and
Master Frank will have a fine chase after them."
"Seems to me," said Dick, "that won't be much of a joke."
"Then I guess you never saw a pig-chase. Pigs are so contrary
that if you want them to go in one direction they are sure to go
in another. The way they gallop over the ground, with their
little tails wriggling behind them, is a caution."
"But it would be a great trouble to Frank to get them back."
"Oh, well, you could help him, and so get still more fun out of
it, he not knowing, of course, that you had anything to do with
letting them out."
"And that would take me out of the shop for a couple of hours,"
said Dick, brightening at the thought.
"Of course," said John; "so you would get a double advantage.
Come, what do you say?"
"Well, I don't know," said Dick, wavering. "You'd pay me the
money down on the nail, wouldn't you?"
"Yes," said John. "I'll show you the bill now.
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