There was once a very sharp and very clever boy named Peter whose
job was looking after the pigs of his master and because of this he was known by all the local people as Peter-of-the-pigs. One day he was visited by a man who asked him to sell him seven pigs. Peter being very sharp and very clever saw a way he could profit from this so he said, “I must keep one but I can sell you the remaining six, but only if you chop off their ears and their tails and give them to me.” The man agreed to the deal and cut of the tails and ears of the six pigs and as he drove them away Peter gleefully put the money in his pocket.
Of course this was all very clever business but how was he going to explain the missing pigs to his master? Well, this is what he did. He took the remaining pig to a sand pit and half buried it in the sand. Then he carefully placed the ears and tails of the six mutilated pigs so that part of them poked out of the sand. Next he ran as fast as he could to his master crying, “Help, help, help, the pigs are stuck in the sand, come quick and help me get them out!”
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