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Filed under Remarkable skill.

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Thief can eat from man's plate during dinner without detectionThief can cut soles off man's boots without detection as he walks along road
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Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are testedUnskilled man made skillful by saint's blessingSkillful marksmanSkillful tailorSkillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.)Skillful flayerSkillful barberSkillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the likeSkillful fencer (swordsman)Skillful surgeonSkillful shipbuilderMan can keep together feathers in great windSkillful painter. Can paint from description of a dreamIngenious carpenterSkillful trackerSkillful milker
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Master thief. Man undertakes to steal various closely guarded things. Succeeds by cleverness

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