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| A. | Fox and toad. an 1. ECPE no 228: Mt *278 A + Mt 275 *A. 2. ECPE no 229: Mt *278 A + Mt 275 *A. |
| B. | Fox and lark. Grayhound protects lark. an 1. COAR p. 59 = CST p. 124. |
| 285. | Libro de los enxemplos c. 2 (Gayangos, Escritores ant al s. XV p. 447); c. 134 (Gayangos p. 480); see BP II 461, 462. |
| *A. | Farmer feeds serpent so that it will not eat cattle. Feeds it hot stone and it dies [K 951]. as 1. LRAF p. 49. 2. LRAF p. 49 (It throws self into sea and stone cools). 3. LRAF p. 49 (Friars feed serpent so it will not eat corpses. They feed it bread full of pins and it dies [K 951.1]. |
| *B. | Farmer sleeps under tree. Snake is about to crawl into his mouth. Nut drops from tree, wakens farmer who kills snake and eats nut [N 652]. as 1. CFAC p. 236. 2. LRAC no 137 = LRAL p. 191. |
| *287. | Trade of toad's tail for mole's eyes. Since then both are so ugly that toad appears only at night and mole goes underground [A 2247.5, A 2378.1.4, A 2332.6.5, A 2378.2.7, A 2433.3.20, A 2433.3.21]. as 1. CFAC p. 169. oc 1. ECPE no 233: Mt *287 + Mt *288 A. |
| *288. | Vain or hasty toad. |
| A. | Toad violates frog. He tries to upset a cart but wheel mashes him. Frog cries, "What shall I do, neither married nor widow nor maiden and pregnant?" Toad in his last struggles cries, "But by a fine fellow!" [J 865]. en 1. ECPE no 234. oc 1. ECPE no 233: Mt *287 + Mt *288 A. |
| B. | Like Mt *288 A except that toad tries to jump across stream and falls in. ar 1. ECPE no 239. oc 1. ECPE. no 235. 2. ECPE no 236. |
| C. | Toad, blackbeetle or tortoise is three, seven or ten years ascending or descending steps or hill. On last step he falls and curses haste [X 938]. an 1. ECPE |
