I"-- But at that instant there came to him a great jolt and a shock; and Ford found himself tumbled all in a heap, on the seat where his feet had been.

Then came bounce after bounce, and the sound of breaking glass, and then a crash.
"Off the track," shouted Ford, as he sprang to his feet.

"I wouldn't have missed it for any thing.

I do hope, though, there hasn't anybody been killed." In the tremendous excitement of the moment he could hardly have told how he got out of that car; but it did not seem ten seconds before he was standing beside the engineer and conductor of the train, looking at the battered engine, as it lay upon its side in a deep ditch.

The baggage-car, just behind it, was broken all to pieces, but the passenger-cars did not seem to have suffered very much; and nobody was badly hurt, as the engineer and fireman had jumped off in time.
There had been very little left of the pig; but the conductor and the rest seemed much disposed to say unkind things about him, and about his owner, and about all the other pigs they could think of.
"This train'll never get in on time," said Ford to the conductor, a little later.