Two Little Confederates by Thomas Nelson Page

After circling the edge of the swamp for some time the boys, as it was / now growing late, turned toward home. They were full of their valuable / discovery, and laid all sorts of plans for the capture of the hogs. / They would not tell even their mother, as they wished to surprise her. / They were, of course, familiar with all the modes of trapping game, as / described in the story books, and they discussed them all. The easiest / way to get the hogs was to shoot them, and this would be the most / "fun"; but it would never do, for the meat would spoil. When they / reached home they hunted up Uncle Balla and told him about their / discovery. He was very much inclined to laugh at them. The hogs they / had seen were nothing, he told them, but some of the neighbors' hogs / which had wandered into the woods.

When the boys went to bed they talked it over once more, and / determined that next day they would thoroughly explore the woods and / the swamp also, as far as they could.