By James Baldwin, N. C. Wyeth
Far-off within the Frozen Land within the some time past time a grasp wizard cast the wondrous Sampo or mill of fortune, which floor out all kinds of treasures and gave wealth and tool to its proprietor. This tale, retold in prose from the Finnish Kalevala, tells of the making of this magic mill with its pictured lid of rainbow colours and of the adventures of the heroes who sought to realize ownership of it.
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She lifted him from the place of danger and seated him in her boat. Then with steady arms and mighty strokes she rowed homeward, nor did she pause until the boat's keel grated on the beach before her door. She carried the stranger into the house; she placed him by the warm fire; she bathed his limbs, his face, his head in tepid water and wrapped him up in soft skins of the reindeer. For three long days—yes, for four summer days—she tended him as though he were her son, and no questions did she ask.
Half-way down the mountain side there was a giant pine tree which the lightning had split from crown to roots. Its two halves gaped wide apart; its torn and broken branches hung dangling in the wind. "Ah! here is a case to test," said the young man. Then with the greatest care, he took a small portion of the ointment upon his finger; he smeared it gently upon the trunk and branches of the wounded pine; he sang softly a little song of magic: "Make it whole and make it strong. Heal it all its length along; Join part to part, restore its heart, And make it straight as hunter's dart.
Cunning, indeed, was Wainamoinen, cunning and old; and when he saw the work of his magic, he was pleased beyond measure. He clapped his hands together in triumph; he leaped and danced around the tree like one gone mad. Then he climbed into the sledge and sat down upon the furry robes; he shook the long reins and spoke gently to his steed. Slowly and thoughtfully, as one well contented with himself, he drove onward along the well-known pathway that led towards the village. His sharp gray eyes looked first this way and then that; his ears were open to the slightest sound; all his senses were alert.