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Ilona came floating up through the waves Frontispiece

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The old king snake has wound himself around Osmo’s arm

The King thought that if Mikko should see his daughter

She fitted the key in the lock

“This last and mightiest battle is for me!”

Suyettar bewitching Kerttu

She beckoned to Veikko

On it flew until it reached the broad Ocean

Olli and the Troll’s horse

From the bones of the cattle he laid three bridges

“She is under an evil enchantment and I am delivering her!”

When she got to the middle of the stream

They were so busy eating and drinking

They carried home the treasure on their backs

Osmo, the Bear, grunted out: “Huh! That’s easy! We’ll eat the smallest of us next!”

“Wake up, Pekka! Wake up! There’s butter running out of your nose!”

“I’ll teach that Crow to interfere with my affairs!” the Fox muttered to himself as he trotted off

And Mikko, beginning with a little whimpering sound, slowly rose to a high heartrending cry

He jerked quickly away and fled and the Bear was left standing with his mouth wide open

A terrible creature landed on his nose and drove it full of pins and needles

The Wolf went staggering around the room howling at the top of his voice

In the confusion that followed the Wolves stampeded, running helter-skelter in all directions

“Here are three of us and, see, here on the floor is our harvest already divided into three heaps”

He dropped it in the water and of course it spread out far and wide and the current carried it off

He ran after Mikko and was about to overtake him when Mikko slipped into a crevice in the rocks. Only one paw stuck out

Of course the instant he opened his mouth, the Grouse flew away

“Why, do you know,” he said, “my turnips and my bread don’t taste a bit like this!”

The first person they met was an old Horse. They put their case to him

With that the Bear lifted his paw and the little Mouse scampered off

So that was the End