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316 TRAVELS ©
duced to flour by the labour of the hands, either by pounding in
mortars, or by grinding betwixt two ftones. This was. a daily
tafk, and it fell to the woman’s lot to perform it in Finland, as in
other countries. During the long and dreary winters of that cli-
mate, they were engaged in this work at home, whilft their huf-
bands abroad were either in purfuit of game, or employed in the
neceflary bufinefs of fecking wood, forage, &c.
To cheer their minds, and beguile their labour, fuch of the
women as were unable to invent fongs, ftudied the compofition
of new ones; whilft others who were not fo happy as to pofleds
that talent, fung thofe they had learned, whether new or old. In
The pafty now is open laid,
And all the rogue’s trick is difplay’d ;
But words I want now to exprefs
His rage, his fury, and diftrefs 5
He ftamp’d, he fwore, with paffion ftutter’d,
But calmer grown, thefe words he utter’d:
How wretched man! expos’d to cheats !
At meals who knows not what he eats!
This day it may be leg of cat,
‘To-morrow fomething worfe than that ;
Thro’ life in all things thus he’s cheated,
And moft when bef he thinks he’s treated S
One truth he firmly may believe,
That death fhall furely not deceive ;
But howe’er fumptuoufly he eat,
For worms at laft will make him meat.
Thus ends Vanonen’s tale, which you
Have liften’d with attention to 5
I truft you think it well beftow’d,
For all allow the moral good,
one
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