mailed it to Morgan. Morgan returned it asking for explanation. Flannery
replied:

"There be now one hundred sixty of them dago pigs, for heavens sake let me
sell off some, do you want me to go crazy, what."

"Sell no pigs," Morgan wired.

Not long after this the president of the express company received a letter
from Professor Gordon. It was a long and scholarly letter, but the point
was that the guinea-pig was the Cava aparoea while the common pig was the
genius Sus of the family Suidae. He remarked that they were prolific and
multiplied rapidly.

"They are not pigs," said the president, decidedly, to Morgan. "The
twenty-five cent rate applies."

Morgan made the proper notation on the papers that had accumulated in File
A6754, and turned them over to the Audit Department. The Audit Department
took some time to look the matter up, and after the usual delay wrote
Flannery that as he had on hand one hundred and sixty guinea-pigs, the
property of consignee, he should deliver them and collect charges at the
rate of twenty-five cents each.

Flannery spent a day herding his charges through a narrow opening in their
cage so that he might count them.

"Audit Dept." he wrote, when he had finished the count, "you are way off
there may be was one hundred and sixty dago pigs once, but wake up don't
be a back number. I've got even eight hundred, now shall I collect for