Thief advises that new cloth be hung in the open overnight. Steals it while owner sleeps

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Thief advises that new cloth be hung in the open overnight. Steals it while owner sleeps.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K343.2.2

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general Pierre Faifeu No. 21.

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Filed under Thief advises that slaughtered meat be hung up over night. Meantime he steals it.

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The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself

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