Long ago, there lived a man who employed a boy named Peter to take care of his pigs. One day, a man came up to Peter and said, “Sell me these seven pigs.” Peter sold six pigs and buried the ears and tails of pigs in sand and called his master. His master ran. There, he saw one of the pigs halfway out of the sand. He and Peter together soon pulled it out completely. To his horror, he saw six tails coming. “Run to the house and ask my wife to give you two shovels!” cried the owner of the pigs, “With the shovels we can dig out the rest of the pigs.” The boy ran to the house.
He knew that his master kept his money in two big bags. So, he asked for the two bags. His wife gave him both the bags after confirming it with her husband. Thus Peter received his master’s two bags of money. But a robber took all his money. When at last Peter’s master found him, he was dead. He said, “Oh, Peter-of-the-pigs! You were sharp, but you found someone who was sharper.”
