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"Amongst all the inhabitants of Finland the Tavastland peasant is the best worker and the poorest. He is quiet and matter-of-fact, with none of the poetical characteristics of his brothers in Savolaks or Osterbotten. The Tavastland peasants are also held to be the densest of all the people in Finland, and many are the tales told of their stupidity. The following anecdote is a good example of their credulity. A party of seven men were cutting hay close to the shore, when one of them perceived a fish in the water. Wishing to kill it, he swung his scythe round; but instead of killing the fish, he managed to cut off his own head. The rest accused his nearest comrade of having done the deed. “No, no,” the man protested,” I had nothing to do with it. He” (pointing to the dead man) “did like this;” and to illustrate his statement, he also cut his own head off in exactly the same manner as the first. Four more followed suit one by one, and at last there was only a single survivor, and he, working out the puzzle for his own enlightenment, cut his head off too!"
A Summer Tour in Finland, Sylvia Borgström MacDougall, 1908
@Aloha Funny anecdote, eh?
A Summer Tour in Finland, Sylvia Borgström MacDougall, 1908
@Aloha Funny anecdote, eh?
