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leaft merit in point of compofition, are of the produ&ion of fe¬ 
males of the dais of Finnifh peafantry. 
Before the general ufe of wind and water-mills, corn was re- 
Coffee I had; punch too he gave; 
Brandy betides 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 dos’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 nam’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 difh. 
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, 
’Twas the hind-leg , nor more nor lefs : 
His mouth he fcratch’d with pufs’s claws, 
“ This fifli had fharp teeth in his jaws 
And faying this, a doubt arofe. 
Which to clear up, on fearch he goes : 
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