Mighty Mikko; a book of Finnish fairy tales and folk tales . ADVENTURE X THE PORRIDGE Well, it was only natural that theyshould all want to see at once what kindof porridge their meal would make. Osmos came out black and disgust-ing. Greatly disturbed he ambled overto Mikkos house for advice. TheFox was stirring his own porridge which was white and smooth. Whats the matter with my porridge? the Bearasked. Yours is white and smooth but mine is blackand horrid. 283. 284. MIGHTY MIKKO Did you wash your meal before you put it into thepot? the Fox asked. Wash it? No! How do you wash meal? You take
Mighty Mikko; a book of Finnish fairy tales and folk tales . ADVENTURE X THE PORRIDGE Well, it was only natural that theyshould all want to see at once what kindof porridge their meal would make. Osmos came out black and disgust-ing. Greatly disturbed he ambled overto Mikkos house for advice. TheFox was stirring his own porridge which was white and smooth. Whats the matter with my porridge? the Bearasked. Yours is white and smooth but mine is blackand horrid. 283. 284. MIGHTY MIKKO Did you wash your meal before you put it into thepot? the Fox asked. Wash it? No! How do you wash meal? You take it to the river and drop it in the when its clean you take it out. The Bear at once went home and got his ground upstraw and took it to the river. He dropped it in thewater and of course it spread out far and wide andthe current carried it off. So that was the end of Osmos share of the harvest. Pekka, the Wolf, had as little luck with his he, too, came to Mikko for advice. I dont know whats the matter with me, he dont seem to be able to make good porridge. Lookat yours all white and smooth! I must watch youhow you make it. Wont you let me hang my pot onyour crane? Then Ill do just as you do. Certainly, the Fox said. Hang your pot on thischain and the two pots can then cook side by side. Yours is so white to begin with, Pekka said, andmine looks no better than dirt. Before you came I climbed up the chain and hungover the pot,
Size: 1558px × 1604px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectfairyta, bookyear1922
