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A little farther on she met a fire, and the fire cried out, 'Oh, sweet Peasie! tidy up my hearth a bit, for I am half choked in the ashes! 'So you are, I declare! returned good-natured Peasie, setting herself to clear them away, until the fire crackled and flamed with pleasure.
Yesterday comes Peasie, while we were hard at work, and wheedles her doting old father out of his best buffalo, and goodness knows what else besides, and to-day you come to rob us! Out of the house, you baggage! With that they hounded her away, hot, tired, bruised, and hungry. 'Never mind! said she, to console herself, 'I shall get the web of cloth yet!
Now, as she passed the stream, she saw a web of fine cloth floating down. 'Take it, Peasie, take it! tinkled the stream; 'I have carried it far, as a reward for your kindness. So she gathered up the cloth, laid it on the buffalo, and went on her way. By and by she passed the pipal tree, and lo! on the branch she had tied up hung a string of pearls.
Once upon a time there were two sisters, who lived together; but while the elder, Beansie by name, was a hard quarrelsome creature, apt to disagree with everybody, Peasie, the younger, was soft and most agreeable. Now, one day, Peasie, who was for ever trying to please somebody, said to her sister, 'Beansie, my dear! don't you think we ought to pay a visit to our poor old father?
First she held on to a lower branch with her left hand, and reached for the fruit with the right; then, when that was all scratched and torn by the thorns, she held on with her right, and tried to get the fruit with the left, but all to no avail; and when face and hands were all bleeding and full of prickles, she gave up the useless quest, and went home, bruised, beaten, wet, sore, hungry, and scratched all over, where I have no doubt her kind sister Peasie put her to bed, and gave her gruel and posset.
'Oh, Peasie! cried the tree, 'stop a bit, there's a good soul, and tidy up my thorns a little; they are scattered about so that I feel quite uncomfortable! 'So they are, I declare! returned Peasie, and forthwith set to work with such a will that ere long the tree was as neat as a new pin.
'Take it, Peasie, take it! rustled the pipal; 'I caught it from a Prince's turban as a reward for your kindness. Then she took the pearls, fastened them round her pretty slender throat, and went on her way rejoicing. Farther on she came to the fire, burning brightly, and on it was a girdle with a nice hot sweet-cake.
Farther on she met a pipal tree, and the pipal called out, 'Oh, kind Peasie! bind up this broken branch for me, or it will die, and I shall lose it! 'Poor thing! poor thing! cried soft-hearted Peasie; and tearing a bandage from her veil, she bound up the wounded limb carefully.
After a while she met a stream, and the stream cried out, 'Pretty Peasie! clear away the sand and dead leaves from my mouth, for I cannot run when I am stifled! 'No more you can! quoth obliging Peasie; and in a trice she made the channel so clear and clean that the water flowed on swiftly.
He must be dull now it is harvest time, and he is left alone in the house. 'I don't care if he is! replied Beansie. 'Go yourself! I'm not going to walk about in the heat to please any old man! So kind Peasie set off alone, and on the way she met a plum-tree.
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