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THROUGH FINLAND. 311
cuftoms with a cat baked in a pafty! What a wretch is man!
«* Who knows not, if he live to grow in years, what he may
‘* chance to eat before he dies, when I, a young man, was very
“‘ near devouring a cat with her {kin and fur on.
‘«* Thus endeth this tale, which I, the before-mentioned Va-
** nomen, have compofed, and which all allow to end well, and
‘* with great ingenuity.’ *
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* IT will fubjoin a verfion in Englifh rhyme of the fame poem, in which the lite-
ral meaning of the original has likewife been as faithfully retained as poflible. It
thus forms a droll fort of a ballad.
THE PALDAMO-PASTY :
A Finnifb Tale, by the Peafant Vaninen.
A ftory, I remember well,
Y once did hear, which now I[’ll tell;
For I, Vanonen, (you all know it,
A peafant, and, what’s more, a poet),
Did verfify it in a ftyle,
That all who hear fay ’tis worth while:
How that of cuftoms the Commis .
Was trick’d (none better trick’d could be)
With fav’ry pafty of a cat,
That moufe had often kill’d, and rat.
"Twas at Paldamo that a fet
Of jovial peafants once were met ;
‘When ent’ring into merry chat,
Of neighb’ring towns, and this and that ;
They all agreed, and did declare,
Knaves of more cunning any where,
In any town the country round,
Than Uleaborg’s cou’d not be found ;
And
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