FFC 90
1200—1999 Joke and anecdote.
151
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to priest, "At this rate I shall lunch with Christ" [J 1475]. as 1. CTA p. 224. |
1875—1999 Lying.
1890—1909 Hunting.
| BLC II 292. | |
| 1892. | BLC II 170. |
| 1930. | J. Ruiz Arcipreste de Hita (copla 112 and 331. BAE 57. 225. 260). Lope de Rueda (Obras 1, 50. 1895). Two ballads (Durán no 1347. 1733. Depping, Romancero cast. 1844 2, 430. 477); see BP III 248. J. Ducamin, Romances choisis, Paris n d, no 68 = Durán II 393. |
| 1940. | Cf B. de Torres Naharro, "Comedia Tinellaria" in Propaladia, Madrid, Fé 1880, I 414. |
| *A. | Poor man is given shelter or employed by man (priest). Employer, to make fun of poor man's ignorance, gives him extraordinary names for common objects, animals and people around the house. During night cat catches fire in tail, or poor man sets fire to it, and house catches fire. Poor man warns employer of the danger, using the extraordinary names, and makes off with food. Employer does not understand and house burns. Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde 1916 XXVI 8, 370; 1917 XXVII 135; 1918 XXVIII 135. an 1. FA p. 134. as 1. LRAC no 81. 2. LRAC no 152. 3. CTA p. 229. le 1. ECPE no 58. 2. ECPE no 59. oc 1. ECPE no 57. |
| *B. | Student poses as fool or man disguises as woman and obtains employment in house of man with pretty daughter or in king's palace. He tells man his name is Shirttail; tells porter it is I Myself; daughter it is Cramps; maidservant it is Kitty. |
