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| *D. | — My dog picked up a string, but did not wish to give it to me unless I gave her bread. Cupboard did not wish to give bread unless I gave it a key; smith, charcoal; charcoal burner, calf's legbone; butcher, milk; cow, grass; meadow, water; clouds, dove's feather. Dove gave me a feather which I gave to clouds, etc. oc 1. ECPE no 278. 2. no 279. |
| 2031. | Bird has leg broken by snow. Cold wind blows. Bird cries, "Winds, move the clouds that hide the sun; sun, melt the snow that breaks the leg of a poor little bird like me!" [I have emended the text slightly.] California Span: Espinosa JAF XXVII 222. New Mexico: Espinosa JAF XXVII 138. as 1. LRAC no 186. |
| 2032 *A. Toad asks magpie in tree to throw down a chestnut. Magpie refuses, saying it might break its beak. Toad promises, if that happens, to get a horsehair to tie it up again. Magpie throws chestnut and breaks beak. Toad asks ass for hair, but ass first demands grass; mower first demands sheep; shepherd, pup; mother dog, bread; baker, stumps. Toad cut the stumps and finally got the hair. as 1. LRAC no 178. | |
| 2040. | Libro de los ejemplos no CXXIV. |
| *2045. | Devil threatened to carry off pauper if he could not say twelve words "retorneadas". St. Joseph answered for pauper, "One, sun and moon; two, Moses' tablets where Christ put his feet to go up into the holy house of Jerusalem; the three Maries; the four evangelists; the five wounds; the six candlesticks; the seven choruses; the eight pleasures; the nine months; the ten commandments; the eleven thousand virgins; the twelve apostles" [H 602]. nc 1. ECPE no 14. |
