White-tailed deer life wisdom

Siikainen is located at the crossroads of three dialect areas: Ostrobothnia, Häme and Satakunta. It is said that the region has been actively sought out for landowners from neighboring farms, who have contributed to enriching the Siikainen linguistic heritage.

“Different villages have had colorful personalities: quick-talking housewives, meticulous landlords, eloquent maids and servants, and village idiots with worldly wisdom. Someone somewhere has said something 'appropriate', the listener has started repeating what they heard, and yet another new proverb has been born” (Collander R. Get the poor out of the way p. 7)

The following Siikaisian wisdom on life is borrowed from the book Pois köyhät aukeelta (Out of the Poor).

From work
"Let's put it hard against hard, say mother, sit on the rock."
"Wait a second, tell the merchant, which goods were being reviewed."
"Poris is a bear castle, but we have a wolf castle."
"Heaven be praised, Pitkävainio has been mowed."
“Fits and doesn’t smell, like Jokinen’s shoemaker’s shoes.”
“Shared joy is double joy, shared sorrow is doubled.”

Those women
"If you take a cow from Siikasi and a cow from Isoltajoki, you'll get both good ones."
"The stove is smoking again, you mean, what's wrong with you?"
“A house without a mistress is like a field without a gate”
"Oh my gosh, tell me in Morse code how did you get back from the coals"

Eating
"Yes, there is enough bread, just the loaves will last," said the host of Esterpy.
"I'll eat the second one, tell me Jussi, did you hear that the bread went on the card?"
"Not that fish, but that slime, says Hako-Hemmo, that's a drink from the Esterpy pond."
"Eat now so that your belly button shines."

There are many of us.
"This is my son's car - sometimes the damper is open and sometimes it is closed," said the priest of Halamee.
“It is a deep meditation, like Jansson’s Miina’s poem.”
"If the world were round, Haanpää's huusholli would have been Tommila's six-story house long ago."
"My daughter screams so much that her palate is burning," says Karikosken's Fiina.