Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." — Mythoi

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Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running."

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. · view the constellation · filed as K196.1

Filed across the traditions

Canada Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Selling by trickery: literal bargain. (Cf. K134.1.)

Filed beside it

The tall hog. Man boasts of hog so big that a man could not reach its back if he holds his hand as high as possible. A stranger buys the hog, sight-unseen. The seller takes him to the hog, shows the buyer that the hog's back is much below his hand when he holds it as high as possible Trickster lends bamboo on condition that it is returned exactly as it is

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