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But when Peik was come well into the wood behind the hill, so that he was out of the King's sight, he sat as though he were tied to the horse, and off he rode as fast as the horse could carry him. But when he got to the town he sold both horse and saddle. All the while the King walked up and down, and loitered, and waited for Peik to come tottering back again with his fooling rods.
"Why!" said Peik, "how could I get on at all if I couldn't? I am always killing every one I come near; don't you know I have a terrible temper?" "I am hot-tempered, too," said the King, "and that horn I must have. I'll give you a hundred dollars for it, and besides I'll forgive you for cheating me out of my horse and for fooling me about the pot and the block, and all else."
But the King was now angrier than ever, and must go right off to kill Peik. But Peik knew that he was coming and then he said to his sister "Now, you must change clothes with me and set off. If you will do that, you may have all we own." So, she changed clothes with him, packed up and started off as fast as she could; but Peik sat all alone in his sister's clothes.
So he saw that Peik had been out with his fooling rods this time, too. Then he fell a-tearing his hair, and said he would set off at once and slay the lad. He wouldn't spare him this time, whether or no. But Peik was ready for him. He had filled a leather bag with blood and stuffed it into his sister's bosom, and told her what to say and do. "Where's Peik?" screamed out the King.
These subsequent reversals of decisions which were exceedingly popular at the time, however, not only constituted sound law but promoted the public interest, for they established that body of law which has made possible the present more comprehensive system of Federal regulation of railroads. * The cases of particular interest were: Munn vs. Illinois, 94 U.S. 114; Peik vs.
His sister toiled and moiled all she could, but it helped little; so at last she told him how silly it was to do naught for the house. "What shall we have to live on when you have wasted everything?" she said. "Oh, I'll go out and befool somebody," said Peik. "Yes, Peik, I'll be bound you'll do that soon enough," said the sister. "Well, I'll try," said Peik. At last they had indeed nothing more.
When Peik came to the King's palace, there stood the King in the porch, and as soon as he set eyes on the lad he said, "Whither away, to-day, Peik?" "Oh, I was going out to see if I could befool anybody," said Peik. "Can't you befool me now?" said the King. "No, I'm sure I can't," said Peik, "for I've forgotten my fooling rods."
There's no good sitting here and starving in this cabin by yourself," said the King. So Peik went home with the King, and there he was treated as the King's own daughter, for Miss Peik sewed and stitched and sang and played with the others, and was with them early and late.
The boy they called Peik. He was of little use while his father and mother lived, for he cared to do naught else than to befool folk, and he was so full of tricks and pranks that no one was left in peace. When the parents died, matters grew still worse and worse. He would not turn his hand to anything. All he would do was to squander what they left behind them.
Peik was loth to part with it, but for his sake he would let him have it. And so the King went off home with it, and he hardly got back before he must try it. So he fell a-wrangling and quarreling with the queen and his eldest daughter, and they paid him back in the same coin; but before they knew what was happening he had whipped out his knife and cut their throats.
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