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Liian Paha Sappi

by Hellaakoski, Aaro (1893-1952)

The poem Liian Paha Sappi by Aaro Hellaakoski, which tells the tale of a child struggling to keep his temper:

A TEMPER TOO BAD

How it burns my sisu
when I have to be quiet
If my will would be fulfilled
the undertaker would get grain.

A little boy has gotten
a temper too bad
This sisu cannot be put out
by even the most snowy Lapland.

This project is unusual in that most of the readers are non-Finnish speakers, and learned the poem phonically.
(Summary by Juho Fröjd and Catharine Eastman)

• Gutenberg e-text
• About the author
• LibriVox’s Liian Paha Sappi Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (2.1MB)
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• Version 1 - 00:00:54
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  Read by: Alex Patterson
• Version 2 - 00:00:41
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  Read by: Anita Roy Dobbs
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  Read by: Ezwa
• Version 4 - 00:00:37
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  Read by: Juho Fröjd
• Version 5 - 00:00:45
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  Read by: Kristin Hughes
• Version 6 - 00:00:40
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  Read by: Maria Morabe

Cataloged on November 04, 2006