Text Appearing Before Image: eping such promises. If Eisenkopfdoes not like your marrying, he will have to put up withit all the same! Besides, there stands in the stable agrey horse which is saddled night and day ; and if Eisen-kopf should show his face, you have only got to jump onthe horses back and ride away, and nobody on earth cancatch you. When all is safe you will come back again,and we shall live as happily as two fish in the sea. And so it all happened. The young man found apretty, brown-skinned girl who was willing to have himfor a husband, and the whole village came to the weddingfeast. The music was at its gayest, and the dance at itsmerriest, w^hen Eisenkopf looked in at the window. Oh, ho, my brother ! what is going on here ? It hasthe air of being a wedding feast. Yet I fancied—was Imistaken?—that you had given me a promise that younever would marry. But Peter had not waited for theend of this speech. Scarcely had he seen Eisenkopf thanhe darted like the wind to the stable and flung himself on Text Appearing After Image: EISENKOPF 267 the horses back. In another moment he was away overthe mountain, with Eisenkopf running fast behind him. On they went through thick forests where the sunnever shone, over rivers so wide that it took a whole dayto sail across them, up hills whose sides were all of glass;on they went through seven times seven countries tillPeter reined in his horse before the house of an oldwoman. Good day, mother, said he, jumping down and open-ing the door. * Good day, my son, answered she, * and what are youdoing here, at the worlds end ? * I am flying for my life, mother, flying to the worldwhich is beyond all worlds ; for Eisenkopf is at myheels. * Come in and rest then, and have some food, for Ihave a little dog who w^ill begin to howl when Eisenkopfis still seven miles off. So Peter went in and warmed himself and ate anddrank, till suddenly the dog began to howl. Quick, my son, quick, you must go, cried the oldwoman. And the lightning itself was not quicker thanPeter. Stop a moment,
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