Dupe left to care for child while his goods are stolen

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Dupe left to care for child while his goods are stolen.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K345.3

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Sympathetic helper robbed.

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Sympathetic helper sent for remedy and robbed Thief sent into well by trickster. A weeping boy tells a passing thief that he has lost a silver cup in a well. The thief takes off his clothes and goes after the cup, intending to keep it. He finds nothing. When he comes up, his clothes have been stolen Antelope sends leopard for fire, eats game while leopard is gone

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