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, youth so lively,

He the handsome Kaukomieli,

Took provisions in his satchel,

In his wallet summer-butter,

Butter for a year to last him,

For another, pork sufficient,

Then he travelled off to hide him,

Started in the greatest hurry,

And he said the words which follow:

“Now I go, and I’m escaping,

For the space of three whole summers,

And for five years in succession.

Be the land to snakes abandoned,

Let the lynxes snarl in greenwood,

In the fields the reindeer wander,

In the brakes the geese conceal them.

“Fare thee well, my dearest mother,

If the people come from Pohja,

From Pimentola the army,

And about my head they ask you,