"Why, it's that plagued Betsy and Jane, my two young sows," he cried the next moment.

"Consarn and keelhaul the critters, they're breakin' out all the time.

I reckon they're headed fer home now," he added, when Hiram related how he had scared them.
"I'm glad that they were nothing but pigs, captain," said Hiram, going back with flushed cheeks to his cookery.

"I was afraid for a minute they were I hardly know what.

We'll have to fix that store tent more snugly in future." "And I'll have ter take a double reef in my pig Pen," chuckled the captain..