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 Peik, 200 in the ficlds hé saw Peik sitting there on a stone, playing a Jew's harp. " Halloh ! are you sitting- there, Peik ? " asked the king. "Of course I am," said Peik, "I can't sit in two places at once." " Well, you have played such vile tricks on me time after time/' said the king, '* that you will have to come with me and get your deserts." "Well, I suppose there 's no help for it," said Peik, "so I may as Well jump into it as creep into it." When they came to the palace the king gave orders to get ready a barrel, which Peik was to be put in, and when it was ready they carted it up on a high mountain, where he was to He in the barrel for three days to think on all that he had done, before they rollcd the barrel down the mountain into the sea.