On the road he met a strange gentleman who stopped and said, "Little girl, can you tell me the way to the Fair?"
"I am no girl, I am a man," said Bikku Matti.
"You don't look like a man," said the stranger.
Bikku Matti made no answer, but when he reached the Fair he called out so that all could hear him, "I only look like a girl, but I am a man."
Men and women laughed out loud. Boys and girls gathered about Bikku Matti, clapped their hands and cried, "Oh, look at little Mary, where did you get your pretty clothes?"
"It's Grandmother's skirt, and not mine," said Bikku Matti. "I am no Mary, I am Matti, don't you see?"
Then the largest and naughtiest of the boys took Bikku Matti on his back, carried him to the Punch and Judy show and cried out, "Come and see a penny-lad! Come and see my man in a petticoat!"
Bikku Matti grew angry and pulled the boy's hair with all his might. "It is not my skirt, it is Grandmother's skirt!" he cried and he began to weep.
But the naughty boy kept on. "Come and see this man in a skirt."