pledge _you_ my word, that there was anything the matter with it."

"That's pretty thin," said Keyser; "you had a grudge agin that pig
because you couldn't scare up a pig like him, and you killed him on
purpose."

"That's perfectly ridiculous."

"Oh, maybe it is. You'll just fork over two hundred dollars for that
piece of pork, if you please."

"I'll see you in Egypt first."

* * * * *

Peter whipped; but if Keyser _did_ give in first, Peter went home with
a bleeding nose, and the next day he was arrested for killing the
pig. The case is coming up soon, and Peter's brother is on, ready to
testify about that cane. Peter himself walks now with a hickory stick.




CHAPTER XIV.

_RESPECTING CERTAIN SAVAGES_.


When young Mr. Spooner, Judge Twiddler's nephew, left college, he made
up his mind to enter the ministry and become a missionary. One day he