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THROUGH FINLAND. 313
which empties itfelf near to itm the gulf of Bothnia. That river
is alluded to in the foregoing tale. |
Chriftmas is a feafon of leifure with the peafants of Finland, as
I pleaded I was far from home,
‘To Uleaborg on bus’nefs come,
And that I brought with me this meat,
That I in town might of it eat; °
Not paying merchants for my fleeping,
I wou’d not they fhou’d pay my keeping.
Howe’er my veal he took, don’t doubt it,
And I was fain to go without it.
When I came home my wife did {cold !
Two days her tongue fhe wou’d not hold;
She call’d me fool and filly elf,
Said none was dup’d fo as myfelf :
You are (at laft the faid) fo hafty, ~
Give him your veal! give a cat-pafty !
Stop there, dear wife, and fay no more,
You won’t mend that, talk for an hour.:
The words which fhe that moment faid,
Had put a thought into my head,
A trick to play this faid Commis,
And ferve him worfe than he ferv’d me.
So pufs I took, and made her. fit, 4
To put in pafte, or fix on {pit :
But wou’d you think, my fimple wife
Seeing our cat depriv’d of life,
Begg’d that the {kin I’d let her take,
Lining for her pelice to make.
What ! I exclaim’d, in angry fit,
You are for giving a tit-bit
Pufs without fkin, fhou’d I now bake,
The Commis for a hare will take; _
And our Paldamo’s good things more
Grow fond of than he was before:
VoL. IL Ss Our
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