FFC 90
1200—1999 Joke and anecdote.
123
| 1360 B. Cf Mt 1535 III. | |
| C. | as 1. LRAC no 108 (Priest sends boy to call shoemaker's wife. But as boy sings his message, shoemaker overhears and sings threat). 2. LRAC no 109 (Husband jumps out of sack and gives priest beating). 3. LRAC no 110 (Husband beats lover and wife). |
| 1363 *A. Two brothers go courting. Younger promises older to stop eating when he feels kick under table. Cat brushes against his leg and he stops eating soon after he has begun. It snows and brothers stay all night. Older slips into kitchen to bring porridge to younger. By mistake he returns to bed of girl's mother. He says not to blow porridge for it is already cold. But he hears puff of wind and in disgust he slaps porridge against opening from which puff came. Mother goes out to clean herself. Older brother goes to wash hands and gets hand stuck in bowl. He breaks bowl over mother's rump, taking it for a stone. as 1. LRAC no 63. Cf Mt 1775. | |
| 1364 *A. Lover confides his adventures to shoemaker and does not know it is shoemaker's wife he is courting. He hides in jar and chest but shoemaker does not find him. Third time wife has shoemaker kneel before saint's statue with her and she states that her husband is jealous and asks saint to punish guilty one. Lover behind statue hits shoemaker on head with mallet. as 1. LRAC no 103. | |
| 1365 A. BLC I 19. | |
| B. | S. de Covarrubias Orozco, Tesoro de la lengua castellana española, Madrid 1674—3; see under "Tigeretas". |
| C. | as 1. LRAC no 94. |
| *D. | Man and wife dispute over which of them shall eat three of their five eggs. Wife insists on having |
