The level bushel. The student is to come into the devil's power if at the end of a year he does not at least return for the heaping bushel of gold a level one. The student forthwith hands back the level bushel and keeps the surplus

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The level bushel. The student is to come into the devil's power if at the end of a year he does not at least return for the heaping bushel of gold a level one. The student forthwith hands back the level bushel and keeps the surplus.

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general *Type 1182
general *BP III 14 n. 3, 364.

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Payment to be made at harvest of first crop. The man plants acorns Payment to be made when last leaf falls. The last leaf never falls from the oak tree To owe sixteen florins. Horse bought on condition that the buyer pay ten florins and owe sixteen. In court the buyer insists on the bargain and shows that if he pays the sixteen florins which he owes he will break the bargain, for then he would no longer owe The debt will be returned to the devil when the pigs walk instead of run home

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The Level Bushel · ATU 11821 recorded variant

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