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Obviously this decision allowed the states to work out their railroad problems unhampered, and constituted one of the chief victories for the Grangers. In 1886, however, the Court overturned some of the principles which had been established in the Munn and Peik cases. The new development came about in connection with the Wabash railroad.
Then there was another story, for the King got wroth, and was all for setting off to kill Peik. But Peik had found out the day he was coming, and told his sister she must put on the big boiling-pot with a little water in it. Just as the King came in, Peik dragged the pot off the fire and ran off with it to the chopping-block, and so boiled the porridge on the block.
Well, Peik stood and scratched his head as though he would pull the hair off, and he let them lift him up into the saddle. There he sat, swinging this side and that, so long as the King could see him, and the King laughed till the tears came into his eyes, for such a tailor on horseback he had never seen.
"Can't you go home and fetch them?" said the King, "I should be very glad to see if you are such a trickster as folks say." "I've no strength to walk," said Peik. "I'll lend you a horse and saddle," said the King "But I can't ride either," said Peik. "We'll lift you up," said the King, "then you'll be able to stick on."
But when the King came back to the palace, Peik was there before him, and sat in the court-yard playing on his mouth organ. "What! You sitting here, you, Peik?" "Yes! Here I sit, sure enough. Where else should I sit?" said Peik. "Maybe I can get room here for all my horses and sheep and money." "But whither was it that I rolled you that you got all this wealth?" asked the King.
So he saw that Peik had been out with his fooling rods and had cheated him again, and now he would set off at once and slay him. When the King came, Peik stood out by the barn door. "Wouldn't it boil?" he asked. "No, it would not, and you shall smart for it," said the King, about to unsheath his knife. "I can well believe that," said Peik, "for you did not take the block, too."
"You have cheated me foully time after time," said the King, "but now you must come along home with me, and I'll kill you." "Well, well," said Peik, "if it can't be helped, it can't; I suppose I must go along with you." When they got home to the King's palace they got ready a barrel which Peik was to be put in, and when it was ready they carted it up a high mountain.
While the Munn case was before the Court, the case Peik v. the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company was raising a question which struck at the heart of the chief practical impediment in the way of state control of transportation. The central question in the litigation was whether the legislature of Wisconsin could lawfully regulate rates on railroads inside the state.
But he kept his fooling rods to himself, and kept them so well that nothing was ever heard of Peik and his tricks, but only of "Ourself the King." There was once a King, and he had a daughter who was so cross and crooked in her words that no one could silence her, and so he gave it out that he who could do it should marry the princess and have half the kingdom, too.
And every now and then he laughed when he called to mind how wretched the lad looked as he sat swinging about on the horse like a sack of corn, not knowing on which side to fall off. This lasted for seven lengths and seven breaths, but no Peik came, and so at last the King saw that he was fooled and cheated out of his horse and saddle, even though Peik had not had his fooling rods with him.
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