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Now, the King came to roll Peik down the mountain. "A happy journey!" said the King, "and now it is all over with you and your fooling rods." Before the barrel was halfway down the mountain there was not a whole stave of it left, nor would there have been a whole limb on Peik, had he been there.
"Oh, you rolled me into the sea," said Peik, "and when I got to the bottom there was more than enough and to spare, both of horses and sheep, and of gold and silver. The cattle went about in great flocks, and the gold and silver lay in large heaps as big as houses." "What will you take to roll me down the same way?" asked the King. "Oh," said Peik, "it costs little or nothing to do it.
"I wish I thought," said the King, "you weren't telling me a pack of lies." "I tell you it's because of the block it stands on; it won't boil without it," said Peik. "Well, what do you want for it?" It was well worth three hundred dollars; but for the King's sake it should go for two. So the King got the block and traveled home with it.
There he was to lie three days, thinking on all the evil he had done, then they were to roll him down the mountain into the sea. The third day a rich man passed by and when he heard Peik's story he was ready to help him out of his trouble. They made a stuffed man and put him with some stones into the barrel but the rich man gave Peik horses and cows, sheep and swine, and money beside.
There was an end of everything; and Peik started off, and walked and walked till he came to the King's palace. Now, I must tell you, this King and his queen and eldest daughter were little better than trolls, mean and hateful and very foolish, so there was no love lost between them and the people.
"Where is that Peik?" roared the King, as as he came, in a towering rage, through the door. "He has run away," said Peik. "He knew that your Majesty was coming, so he left me all alone without a morsel of bread or a penny in my purse," and he made himself as gentle and sweet as a young lady. "Come along, then, to the King's palace, and you shall have enough to live on.
Then he mounted his horse to go out to look for Peik. He had not gone far before he came to a ploughed field and there sat Peik on a stone, playing on a mouth organ. "What! Are you sitting there, Peik?" said the King. "Here I sit, sure enough," said Peik; "where else should I sit?"
But one day a man came to the King and told him that Peik's sister was at a farm in the neighborhood, and that it was Peik he had brought up in his own house. Now, Peik had heard all that the man told the King, so he ran away from the King's palace, out into the wide world. The King got into a terrible rage then, and called for Peik, but he was nowhere to be found.
"Oh, there's no trouble with her so long as there's breath in my nostrils," said Peik, and with that he pulled out a ram's horn and began to toot on it. "Toot-e-too-too," he blew, with one end of the horn to her body, and up she rose as though there was nothing the matter with her. "Dear me, Peik! Can you kill folk and blow life into them again? Can you do that?" said the King.
It's true you've fooled me out of a horse and saddle, and bridle besides, but all that shall go for nothing if I can only get the pot." "Well, if you must have it, you must," said Peik. When the King got home he asked guests and made a feast, but the meat was to be boiled in the new pot, and so he took it up and set it in the middle of the floor.
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