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  • India*Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under "Wait till I get fat." Captured person (animal) persuades his captor to wait and fatten him before eating him.

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"Wait till I am fat enough to race you." Hero to be eaten by cannibals when he is fattened enough to beat them in a race. He runs awayCalf: "Wait till I grow up.""Let me catch you better game." Captured animal pretends to help captor bring more desirable victim. EscapesWait for the fat goat. Troll lets the first two goats pass on the bridge so that he may eat the biggest one. He is thrown in the waterRam promises to jump into wolf's belly. Gives him a hard knock. The stunned wolf thinks he has swallowed the ram. (Cf. K579.5.1.)Wolf is requested by horse to start eating from the rear; kicked to deathToo dirty to eat. Trickster, cornered by leopard, leaps into swamp, then says he is too dirty to eat. Leopard smells of him and agrees
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