"the dream may have been true," said the king, "i will give thee a piece of advice. fill thy pocket full of peas, and make a small hole in it, and then if thou art carried away again, they will fall out and leave a track in the streets." but unseen by the king, the mannikin was standing beside him when he said that, and heard all. at night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty mannikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was. and again the princess was compelled to do servant’s work until cock-crow.