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THROUGH FINLAND. 315
leaft merit in point of compofition, are of the production of fe-
males of the clafs of Finnith peafantry.
Before the general ufe of wind and water-mills, corn was re~
Coffee I had; punch teo he gave;
Brandy befides he made me have.
My congees made, to town I went,
And left the Commis well content.
Paldamo’s peafant now has ended
His tale, by neighbour’s well attended ;
You too attention pay to verfes,
Peafant Vanonen here rehearfes ;
What gets Vanonen for his pains?
Gifts much like that the Commis gains ;
Pafty of cat, or fome fuch matter :
But left you think I idly chatter ;
And talk thus when my tale’s not clos’d,
Becaufe I am to end it pos’d ;
I now will haften the conclufion,
And fhew you Ritzi in confufion ;
Ritzi, I fay, for fo ’tis fam’d,
Our officer by all was ttam’d.
The pafty you may think was not
At Ritzi’s fupper-time forgot ;
For being large, fuppos’d of fifh,
It made at table the chief dith.
The commiflary tried the pafte,
And found it relifh’d to his tafte ;
Within the cruft he made a hole,
And brought out what he thought a jole;
Jole of a jack, fo he did guefs,
*T was the hind-leg, nor more nor lefs :
His mouth he feratch’d with pufs’s claws,
“ This fifh had fharp teeth in his jaws ;”
And faying this, a doubt arofe,
Which to clear up, on fearch he goes:
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