The next person they met was Mikko, the Fox. Mikko listened carefully and then drawing the Farmer aside he whispered:
“If I give judgment in your favor will you let me carry off all the chickens in your hen-house?”
“Indeed I will!” the Farmer promised.
Then Mikko cleared his throat importantly and said:
“H’m! H’m! To give fair judgment in this case I must go over all the ground. First show me the field of rye and the damage Osmo did.”
So they went to the field and the Fox, after he had appraised the damage, shook his head seriously.
“It was certainly wicked of Osmo eating all that rye!... Now show me the net.”
So they went to the snare and the Fox examined it carefully.
“You say the Bear got entangled in this snare. I want to see just how he did it.”
Osmo showed just how he had been caught.