Thief sends owner for water in leaky basket

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Thief sends owner for water in leaky basket.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K337.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

N. Am. Indian (California)Gayton and Newman 87.

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Filed under Oversalting food of giant so that he must go outside for water. Meantime his goods are stolen.

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