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43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have worked too hard and sacrificed too much to get what we have here, to abandon it, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If thee and the little ones think best to go into the town with the others, thee must do so, Hannah, but the boys and I, with Mr. James an... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Herbert, Joe—where is Herbert?"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Ruth, he said in a low voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was he killed? she whispered huskily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have not heard anything from him in so long——"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, he hastened to assu... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you are looking forward to a happy evening with Nina,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nina? he said interrogatively, then going on with his shining with bent head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why—a—no, I—I thought I would go over to the Jameses—that is if I won’t be in the way. I—a—I thought I’d like to ask if they had heard anything about Herb."
... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joe!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nina, he said, bending his head close to hers,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The tears she had been trying to conceal rushed into her eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glad, Joe? There are no words tha... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’ve been a great fool, Mother, he said tenderly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She could never be more truly my daughter than she is now, said Mrs. Peniman, kissing the white brow that nestled against her shoulder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Congratulate me, old boy, he cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’ll bet you’re not any happier than I am,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are? Bully! Then you and Nina have fixed it up all right? Good! I’m mighty glad. Lord, Joe, I wish I’d suspe... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That fellow ought to be in an ambulance instead of on foot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he whispered in a weak voice;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, he shouted,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All he needs now is food and rest and care, he continued,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we’re going home, old chap,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never thought to see it again,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ruth, she said gently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have news for thee. A message has come——"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From Herbert?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, there is a message from Herbert. Is thee strong enough to bear ... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will take months to nurse him back to himself, Father, she told him,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She might as well be nursing Herbert as a chicken with a broken wing or a dog with a sore foot, smiled her father,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joseph Peniman, Attorney at Law."
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I heard that you had returned safely, said the Judge, warmly shaking his hand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thought you were coming up to study law in my office?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I took my examination a few weeks ago, he answered,"
},
... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come home to dinner with me, Judge, and meet my family, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have often talked to Father and Mother about you and I would like you to meet them. It’s only a short ride, and I have my buggy here."
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is that girl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is my—my—a—foster—sister,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I asked —explained Judge North,—"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he cried,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My God! he breathed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Her face—her voice—her hair! It must be—I can’t be dreaming—Marion, Marion!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is not Marion, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, of Marion Carr... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know now, he cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have always seen a resemblance in Judge North to some one I had seen. Now I know that it was to Nina—to Mrs. Carroll—whom I have never forgotten. Don’t you see it, Father? Isn’t it so?"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And this white man—this ’Red Snake’—what of him? Did you ever see him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw him several times,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was he like?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was tall, powerfully but slende... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, child, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a strange story to tell, that touches you nearly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know who ’Red Snake’ was, he began;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A _brother_? cried out Joe;... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This would indicate that the father forgave Lee, and deeded this property to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you ever done anything about these?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, answered Mr. Peniman;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I—a—I hope you won’t mind, judge, he said awkwardly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, well, well! he cried,"
}
] |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My child, he said, in a tone that sent premonitory chills of trouble into the hearts of the two young people,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A blow? Nina turned pale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What kind of a blow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don’t bother any more about it, dear, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just let’s forget all about the money part of it, and be happy. I’m sure it will never give me another thought—if Joe doesn’t mind taking a penniless bride."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he ejaculated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you’re a great pair of young simpletons, but I’m glad you take it that way. I don’t think, however, that you need feel much uneasiness about your future. The new West is opening up, there are going to be gre... |
43463 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have given much to the New West, Joshua,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was that for which we became pioneers,"
}
] |
308328 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You take me for a cheechalko?"
}
] |
133806 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right,"
}
] |
636882 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did you get that?"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "separators have been converted to double asterisks"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my mother, aged woman, Bring thou food, and bring it quickly, That the hungry man may eat it, And the moody man devour it, 30 While they warm the bathroom for me, And the bathroom set in order, That the man may wash and cleanse him, And adorn him like a hero."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my mother, aged woman, Seek the storehouse on the mountain, Bring me thence my shirt, the fine one, Likewise bring the finest clothing, That I now may put it on me, And may fitly clothe me in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whither goes my son, my dearest, Dost ... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not go, my son my dearest, O my dearest son, my Kauko, Go not to the feast at Pohja, To that mansion's drinking-party, For indeed they did not ask you, And 'tis plain they do not want you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only bad men go for asking; Uninvited good m... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the ground are other serpents, On the path are snakes and adders, And above, their tongues are hissing, And below, their tails are waving. 240 One of all the most terrific Lies before the gate across it, Longer is he than a roof-tree, Than the roof-props is he thicker, And ab... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen now to what I tell thee. When to Pohjola thou comest, All the slope with stakes is bristling, And the yard with poles is bristling, All with heads of men surmounted, And one stake alone is vacant, 320 And to fill the stake remaining, Will they cut thy head from off thee."... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my only son, my dearest, O my child, of all the strongest, When thou com'st to the carousal, And thou comest where thou wishest, Drink thou half a goblet only, Drink the measure to the middle, And the other half return thou; Give the worst half to a worse one. 400 In the goble... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whither wilt thou go, O Kauko, Whither goes the son of Lempi?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unto Pohja's feast I journey, The carousal held in secret. Turn thee on one side a little, From the youth's path do thou turn thee, Let the traveller make his journey, Do not... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the north-east let them gather, Push their borders all together, Drive them edge to edge together, Let the snow fall staff-deep round me, Deep as is the length of spear-shaft, On these stones to redness heated, Blocks of stone all fiery glowing."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is what my mother told me, This is what my mother dreaded; Here I find a fence tremendous Reared aloft from earth to heaven, 600 Down below there creeps a viper, Deeper yet the fence is sunken, Up aloft a bird is flying, But the fence is builded higher."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Close thy mouth, thy head conceal thou, Hide thou quick thy tongue within it, Coil thyself together tightly, Roll thyself into a circle, Give me way, though but a half-way, Let the traveller make his journey, Or begone from out the pathway. Creep, thou vile one, in the bushes, I... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This thy origin, O serpent, This thy honour, as reported; Black snake from the world infernal, Serpent of the hue of Tuoni, 760 Hue of earth, and hue of heather, All the colours of the rainbow. Go from out the wanderer's pathway, From before the travelling hero, Yield the pathwa... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greetings to ye on my coming, Greetings also to the greeter! Hearken, Pohjola's great Master, Have you here within this dwelling, Barley for the horse's fodder, Beer to offer to the hero?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps there is within this dwelling, Standing ... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems to me that I'm unwelcome, As no ale is offered to me, To the guest who just has entered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O thou boy, O Lemminkainen, Not as guest thou com'st among us, But upon my head to trample, And to make it bow before you, For our ale is sti... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my little waiting-maiden, O my ever-ready servant, Put into the pot some dinner, Bring some ale to give the stranger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you are indeed a hero, Can you drink the ale I bring you, Nor upset the can that holds it?"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Off to Tuonela the bearer, Quick to Manala the handmaid, Ere the moon again has risen, Or this very day is ended!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O thou beer, thou drink so nasty, In an evil hour concocted, Evil only lurks within thee! 160 Notwithstanding I will drink... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better will not be the banquet, Nor the guest-provision lessened. 260 House for work, the road for strangers, Unrefreshed from the carousal! Quit this place, O scamp of Hiisi, Haste away from all folks' knowledge, To thy home, O toad the basest, Forth, O scoundrel, to thy countr... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As your sword is rather longer, Let the first attack be yours."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear me, son of Pohja's country, Pohjola's illustrious Master, Awkward 'tis in room to combat, Trouble would it give the women, If the clean room should be damaged, And with blood defiled the flooring. Let us go into the courtyard, In the field outside to battle, 330 On the gras... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hearken, O thou son of Pohja! 340 As your sword is rather longer, And your sword is more terrific, Perhaps indeed you need to use it, Just before your own departure, Or before your neck is broken. Strike away, O son of Pohja."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me leave to try a little, For at last my time is coming."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hearken, Pohjola's great Master, True it is, thy neck so wretched, Is as red as dawn of morning."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wicked maid, now bring me water, That I wash my hands and cleanse them, From the blood of wicked Master, From the gore of man of evil."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ukko, Jumala most gracious, Thou the wisest in the heavens, Of the thunderclouds the leader, Of the scattered clouds the ruler! 40 Let it now be gloomy weather, And a little cloudlet give me, So that under its protection I may hasten homeward quickly, Homeward to my dearest moth... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahti, O my dearest brother, Think you on our former combat, Head to head in equal contest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my hawk, my bird so charming, Turn thyself and hasten homeward, 60 To the place from which you started, To the gloomy land of Pohja. Hard it is... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whither now, my son unhappy, Canst thou flee, unhappy creature, Go to hide thee from destruction, Flying from thy wicked action, 180 Lest thy wretched head be captured, And thy handsome neck be severed, That thy hair remain uninjured, Nor thy glossy hair downtrodden?"
},
{
... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didst thou roam as wolf in forest, Or a bear in rugged country, There might still misfortune find thee, Evil fate might rise against thee; 230 If a sooty tramp was passing, He perchance might spear the growler, Or the wolves bring to destruction, And the forest bears might slaug... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fare thee well, my dearest mother, If the people come from Pohja, From Pimentola the army, And about my head they ask you, 20 Say that I have fled before them, And have taken my departure, And I have laid waste my clearing, That which I had reaped so lately."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wind, inflate the sails above me, Wind of spring drive on the vessel, Drive with speed the wooden vessel, Onward drive the boat of pinewood 40 Forward to the nameless island, And the nameless promontory."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's this strange thing in the water, What this wonder on the billows? If a boat of our relations, Sailing vessel of our island, Hasten then, and speed thee homeward, To the harbour of the island, That we hear the tidings quickly, Hear the news from foreign countries, 70 If th... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there room upon this island, On the surface of the island, Where the boat may land upon it, And to dry land I may bring it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is room upon this island, On the surface of the island, Where the boat may land upon it, And to dry lan... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have sung a song most splendid, But perchance might sing a better, If beneath a roof I sang it, At the end of the deal table. 190 If a house you cannot give me, There to rest upon the planking, I will hum my tunes in forest, Toss my songs among the bushes."
},
{
"from"... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Handsome hero, wretched Kauko, If you will not think upon me, Then I wish that as you travel, May your boat on rocks be stranded."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woe to me, the day is dawning, And the pleasant sun is rising O'er a youth, of all most wretched, O'er the neck of me unhappy! Lempo may perchance a hero With his shirt protect and cover, Perhaps will cover with his mantle, Cast it round him for protection 300 Though a hundred m... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Float like bladder on the water, On the waves like water-lily. Eagle, give me now three feathers, Eagle, three, and two from raven, For the wretched boat's protection, For the wretched vessel's bulwarks."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now the youth must take departure, And must travel from these dwellings, Joyless leave behind these damsels, Dance no longer with the fair ones. 350 Surely when I have departed, And have left this land behind me, Never will rejoice these damsels, Nor unbraided girls be jesting, ... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O thou very gracious mistress, If you but perceived my hunger, Thought upon my sad condition, You would hurry to the storehouse, To the alehouse like a snowstorm, 430 And a can of ale would fetch me, And a strip of pork would fetch me, In the pan would broil it for me, And would... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have roamed among these forests, O'er the stones, and plunged in river, 470 And have played about the meadows, And have wandered through the cornfields. Who has spoiled my well-known homestead, And destroyed my charming dwelling? They have burned the house to ashes, And the wi... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my dearest golden eagle, Can you not perchance inform me, What has happened to my mother, To the fair one who has borne me, To my dear and much-loved mother?"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thus my wretched doom has found me, And an ill reward has reached me, That my sword I dared to measure, And I dared to raise my weapons 510 There in Pohjola's great castle, In the fields of Pimentola. But my own race now has perished, Perished now is she who bore me."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my very dearest mother, O my mother who hast nursed me, Thou art living still, O mother, Watchful still, my aged mother! 540 Yet I thought that thou had'st perished, And wast lost to me for ever, Perished underneath the sword-blades, Or beneath the spears had'st fallen, And I ... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There to dwell was very pleasant, Lovely was it to reside there; 590 Afterwards 'twas bad to live there, And unfit for me to live there. They were anxious for the maidens, And suspicious of the women, Lest the miserable wenches, And the fat and wicked creatures, Might by me be b... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here am I, for sailing ready, But, O wretched one, rejected. 10 Ahti rows not forth to battle, For the space of sixty summers, Neither for the lust of silver, Or if need of gold should drive him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Care thou not, O deck of pinewood, Nor l... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tiera cannot go to battle, Nor may strike with spear in warfare. Other duties call for Tiera, He has made a lifelong compact, For a young wife has he taken As the mistress of his household, 90 But untouched is she at present, Uncaressed is still her bosom."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my Frost, my boy so little, O thou foster-child I nurtured! 130 Go thou forth where I shall bid thee, Where I bid thee, and I send thee. Freeze the boat of that great scoundrel, Boat of lively Lemminkainen, On the lake's extended surface, On the deep and open water, Freeze tho... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If this will not overcome thee, And my spells are insufficient, 290 Still I know another station, Know a fitting station for thee. I will lead thy mouth to summer, And thy tongue to home of summer, Whence thou never canst release thee, In the course of all thy lifetime, If I do ... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there meat within the castle, Is there fish within the household, For the worn and weary heroes, And the men who faint with hunger?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire consume this wretched castle, Water sweep away such castles!"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my dearest brother Tiera, Now at length we're coming somewhere, 360 Now that days and months we've wandered, In the open air for ever."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ne'er in former times my father, Never has my aged father Yielded to a sorcerer's orders, Or the wiles of Lapland's children. Thus my father spoke aforetime, And I now repeat his sayings: 'Guard me, O thou kind Creator, Guard me, Jumala most gracious, Aid me with thy hand of mer... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it smoke I see arising, Or a gloomy cloud that rises, On the borders of the cornfields, Just beyond the new-made pathway?"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Presently when I am bigger, And my body shall be stronger, 110 I'll avenge my father's slaughter, And my mother's tears atone for."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will bring my race to ruin, Kalervo reborn is in him."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can we o'ercome the infant, That destruction come upon him, And that death may overtake him?"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where then can I place the infant, That we bring him to destruction, And that death may overtake him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Time it is to look around us, 180 Whether Kullervo has fallen, Or is dead upon the gallows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you live as it is fitting, Always acting as is proper, In my house I will retain you, And the work of servants give you. I will pay you wages for it, As I think that you deserve it, 210 For your waist a pretty girdle, Or upon your ear a buffet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a one is quite unfitted 230 To attend to little children, Rock the babes with little fingers. Now I know not where to send him, Nor what work I ought to give him. Perhaps he ought to clear the forest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I first a man can deem me,... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lempo may the work accomplish, Hiisi now may shape the timber!"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the seed on earth has fallen, And the young corn should shoot upward, 290 If the sprout should be developed, And the stalk should form upon it, May it never come to earing, Or the stalk-end be developed."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For such labour he's unsuited, He has spoiled the best of timber, And has felled the best for planking. Now I know not where to send him, Nor what work I ought to give him. Should I let him make a fencing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He who cannot raise him birdli... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For such labour he's unsuited. Here's the fence without an opening, And without a gateway through it. Up to heaven the fence is builded, To the very clouds uprising; None can ever pass across it, Pass within through any opening. 340 Now I know not where to send him, Nor what wor... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a labourer he is useless. Whatsoever work I give him, All his work he spoils from malice. Shall I take him into Russia, Shall I sell him in Carelia, 360 To the smith named Ilmarinen, That he there may wield the hammer?"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me something now to work at, Give me work that I may do it, 10 Set me something now to work at, Give some work to me the wretched!"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not eat the food I give you, Till in wood the herd is driven."
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If this is not yet sufficient, And they do not much regard it, 520 Ukko, then, O golden monarch, Ukko, O thou silver guardian, Hearken to my words so golden, Listen to my lovely sayings! Take a snaffle made of rowan, Fix it on their stumpy muzzles, Or if rowan will not hold them... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woe to me, a youth unhappy, And a youth of wretched fortune! Wheresoe'er I turn my footsteps, Nought but idleness awaits me; 10 I must watch the tails of oxen, And must watch the calves I follow, Always tramping through the marshes, Through the worst of level country."
},
{
... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time 'tis for the servant's supper, O thou orphan boy, 'tis evening."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now the time has come for eating, Yes, the time has come for eating, Time it is to take refreshment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many a cake is outsid... |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How shall I for this reward her, Woman's prank, and damsel's mockery, 100 And destroy the base old woman, And that wicked wench, the bakeress?"
}
] |
33089 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call thou all the wolves together, All the bears do thou assemble, Change the wolves to little cattle, Make the bears the larger cattle, Lead them then like cattle homeward, Lead them home like brindled cattle; 120 Thus repay the woman's jesting, And the wicked woman's insult."
... |
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