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THROUGH FINLAND.. 309.
“the cat’s {kin, thefe gentry will take our pufs for a fine Paldamo
«hare, and grow more and more in love with our good things ;
«‘ and thus the fledges of our poor townfmen will never efcape
«« being plundered: no, no, fays I, they fhall have the cat, fkin
«and all, and then they will fee that we can be a match for their
“* thievery.
«« My wife was not very well pleafed to give up the cat’s fkin,
“but fhe was fain to comply, and fo the cat was put into the
« pafty with the fkin on, and the pafty was put into the oven.
«« When the pafty was baked, it was fet by till morning, and
*« then clapped into a fack, and away I fet off merrily for Ulea-
« borg. Upon the road I lighted upon a peafant who was travel-
«ling the fame way. Says my new acquaintance, Can we crofs
«the river by the bridge? I cannot tell you, anfwered J: But
«« when we came to the river fide, we found orders had been given
«to {top the paflage over the bridge; for, fays the carpenter, who
*¢ was hard at work upon the barricade, None of you peafants of
< Baldame are to pafs this way.—So we croffed the river over the
“ice farther up, and when we came to the cuftom-houfe I pre-
« fented the officer with a {mall pafty out of my fack. What
“do you mean by this, fays he; you do not furely intend to
“ make the firft commiffary of the cuftoms fo trifling a prefent
“« as this is! Come, come, I know you Paldamo peafants are never
“‘ without a good large pafty of jack, or fome other excellent fith ;
‘* give me the largeft you have, one that will do credit to your
“ town. ‘This, you muft fuppofe, was juft what I withed to hear;
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