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  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Deceptive damage claims.

Filed beside it
The eaten grain and the cock as damages. A trickster has only a grain of corn; this is eaten by a cock, which he demands and receives as damages. Likewise when a hog eats the cock and the ox eats the hogTrickster demands return of food guest has just eaten: gets damagesDamages claimed for loss of a charm. Princess lets trickster's fly (alleged to be a charm) escapeDamages for supposedly lost horse. Horse concealed by owner in loft of stable at innPayment to lame man who claims that man's father lamed him

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