FFC 90
1200—1999 Joke and anecdote.
143
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Thieves flee in terror. One returns and hears shoemaker or tailor still crying for his real after division of spoils, and reports to companions that church is full of dead [K 335.4]. Cf Mt *1654; and in rejected types Mt 1653* and Mt 1654**. as 1. LRAC no 80. 2. CTA p. 161. oc 1. ECPE no 174: Mt *1716 + Mt 1535 III (Rabbit as messenger. Cf Mt 1539) IV b, V a b. | |
| *1718. | At tailor's banquet there is not enough sausage for all so master tailor leaves out apprentice. Apprentice tells tailor that master always laid aside for himself part of the cloth he cut. Master asks apprentice who told him that. Apprentice asks master who told him he did not like sausage [J 1272.1]. le 1. ECPE no 53. |
| *1719. | Tailor sleeps in shepherd's cabin. He refuses skin for cover because it might have lice. But during night he grows cold and asks shepherd for skin. Shepherd plays deaf. Tailor promises God a big needle if He will make the dawn come quickly. as 1. LRAC no 191. |
[1720—1724 Miller].
| Cf Mt 754 *B and Mt *1800 B. | |
| *1720. | Sacks come back to owners fuller than they left, and yet miller prospers. He is called the Holy Miller. When he dies villagers cannot agree upon most honorable place to bury him, so they place coffin on mule and let it go where it will [B 151]. Mule finally stops by hollow tree trunk near mill. They decide to bury him here, but in digging they throw up pieces of grain sacks which they recognize as their own. Miller had clipped sacks. They bury his body on dung heap [Q 205, Q 488]. [ar] 1. PMC p. 83. |
