"When the King came Peik stood out by the barn door. 'Wouldn't it boil?' he asked.
"'No! it would not,' said the King; 'but now you shall smart for it,' and so he was just going to unsheath his knife.
"'I can well believe that,' said Peik, 'for you did not take the block too.'
"'I wish I thought,' said the King, 'you weren't telling me a pack of lies.'
"'I tell you it's all because of the block it stands on; it won't boil without it,' said Peik.
"'Well; what did he want for it?' It was well worth three hundred dollars; but for the King's sake it should go for two. So he got the block and travelled home with it, and bade guests again, and made a feast, and set the pot on the chopping-block in the middle of the room. The guests thought he was both daft and mad, and they went about makin
