It is narrated that Juha once bought a rooster, but he did not keep it at his home, but he left it with the butcher to slaughter and eat it, for the butcher was his friend. While the rooster was walking, it said to a merchant, “O merchant, where is Juha?” The merchant said to him, “I am Juha.” The rooster said to him, “Then do you want me, for I am Juha’s rooster?” The merchant said to him, “Yes, I want you.” The rooster said to him, “I will not go with you, but you can go ahead, and I will follow you.” So the merchant went ahead, and the rooster followed him. When the merchant reached his home, he put the rooster in a cage to slaughter him. When the rooster was in the cage, he began to cry out loud. His owner Juha heard his voice, so he recognized the rooster was crying out. He hurried to the merchant and said to him, “O my friend, do not slaughter my rooster, for he is yours now.” The merchant replied to him, “O my friend, this rooster has become yours now and you must slaughter him.” Juha said to him, “I will not slaughter him, for the rooster has become yours.” The merchant said to him, “Then you must buy him.” Juha said to him, “O my friend, I will buy him with his skin.” The merchant laughed at his words and said to him, “And I will give you a free skin with him.” Juha said to him, “O my friend, this is not fair. How can I buy him with his skin? You must sell him to me without his skin.” The merchant agreed and said to him, “You are right. I will sell him to you without his skin.”
From the anecdotes of Juha.