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There the old shepherd of Pohjola, Nasshut, was waiting for him, and, though blind, he heard Lemminkainen's footsteps, and sent a serpent from the death-river to meet him. The serpent stung Lemminkainen just over the heart, so that he fell down dead almost instantly, only having time to call upon his ancient mother to help him.
The children had enough to do to watch 'Pappa' Mikko's face and listen to the wonderful tales, and Mother Stina was busy with some sewing she couldn't spin because the noise of the wheel would have drowned Father Mikko's voice. 'Now that we have brought Lemminkainen back from the Death-river, the old man said, 'we will see what Wainamoinen was doing all this while. So he began as follows:
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