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In a pen of oak he placed it. "Stand thou there, O elk of Hiisi, Here remain, O nimble reindeer!"

XIII, 203-210, 217-224.

Glide throughout the land of Hiisi, And across the heaths of Pohja, There to chase the elk of Hiisi, And to catch the nimble reindeer.

XIV, 19-22.

Thereupon the colt he harnessed, In the front she yoked the bay one, And she placed old Vainamoinen In the sledge behind the stallion.

VII, 349-352.

Vainamoinen, old and steadfast, Took his horse of chestnut color, And between the shafts he yoked him, Yoked before the sledge the chestnut, On the sledge himself he mounted, And upon the seat he sat him.

X, 1-6.

Thus the smith, e'en Illmarinen, Clothed himself, and made him ready, Robed himself, and made him handsome, And his servant he commanded: "Yoke me now a rapid courser, In the sledge adorned so finely, That I start upon my journey, And to Pohjola may travel." Thereupon the servant answered, "Horses six are in the stable, Horses six, on oats that fatten; Which among them shall I yoke you?"

XVIII, 379-390.

I cannot see what gives us the right to say that "To regard the descriptions of Lapland and the Lapp, contained in Kalewala, as realism, would be perfectly ridiculous (p. 127)." IHfad it so happened that the Kalewala furnishes the opposite data which would support Hatt's presumptions, he would probably have accepted them without hesitation.

While I have to disagree with Dr. Hatt on many points, and am compelled to reject his claims, there is one point, however, on which I am heartily in accord with him, and this is his plea for collecting more mate-

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