Together they all went to the mill to grind their meal.
As the millstone turned on Mikko’s grain, it made a rough rasping sound.
“Strange,” Osmo said to Pekka, “Mikko’s grain sounds different from ours.”
“Mix some sand with yours,” Mikko said, “then yours will make the same sound.”
So the Bear and the Wolf poured some sand in their straw and their chaff and sure enough, when they turned their millstones again, they, too, got a rough rasping sound.
This satisfied them and they went home feeling they had just as good a winter’s supply of food as Mikko.
He dropped it in the water and of course it spread out far and wide and the current carried it off