THE SHOPBOY AND HIS CHEESE, AND PEIK.
When Anders had ended The Companion , that strangely wild story, we all admired it, but he too had his call, and, turning to Karin, he said,
"Now do you tell The Shopboy and his Cheese. I know you know it, for I heard you telling it to the children last winter over the stove."
So Karin began
THE SHOPBOY AND HIS CHEESE.
"Once on a time there was a shopboy who was so well liked by all who knew him, that they thought him too good to stand behind the counter with a yard measure, and weights and scales. So they made up their minds to send him out with a venture to foreign parts, and they let him choose what he would take out. He chose old cheese, and set off with it to Turkey. There he sold his cheeses very well; but as he was on his way home, he met
