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  • India*Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.)

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Unjust umpire decides a religious dispute. His confederate thus wins an absurd wagerThe wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogsConcealed confederate as unjust witness. A rascal who has hidden with a simple man a treasure found by them carries it away secretly, trying to have his associate condemned on the witness of a tree in which his father is concealedTrickster's confederate gives fabulous appraisal to worthless piece of glass. Priest is duped into buying it as a diamond
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