Olli and the Troll’s horse
The Troll wasn’t at home but the old Troll wife was there. When she saw Olli she thought to herself:
“Mercy me, here’s that Finnish boy again, the one that changed the caps! What shall I do? I must keep him here on some pretext or other until the Troll comes home!”
So she pretended to be very glad to see him.
“Why, Olli,” she said, “is that you? Come right in!”
She talked to him as long as she could and when she could think of nothing more to say she asked him would he take the horse and water it at the Lake.
“That will keep him busy,” she thought to herself, “and long before he gets back from the Lake the Troll will be here.”
But Olli, instead of leading the horse down to the Lake, jumped on its back and galloped away. By the time the Troll reached home, he was safely on the other side of the Bay.