Accordingly, the woman ran out of the house.
"Did you say both of them?" she called to her husband.
"Yes, both of them," he replied. "Be quick about it, too."
Of course the poor man thought that she was asking about the two shovels which he had sent Peter to get.
Thus Peter received his master's two bags of money, and set out into the world with the bags on his shoulder and his pockets full of the money he had obtained from the sale of the six pigs.
After a time Peter-of-the-pigs met a robber. The robber stole one of his money bags and ran away with it. Peter ran after him.
Now it happened that the robber had just killed a deer. He was carrying the liver inside his blouse. As he ran he threw it back so that he could run faster. Peter saw what he had done.
"If you want to catch me, you'll have to throw away your liver, too," called out the robber over his shoulder.
Peter-of-the-pigs pulled out his knife and cut out his liver. Of course he dropped dead at once.
When at last Peter's master found out that he had been deceived he ran after the lad. As he found him lying dead there by the wayside, he said: