Tardy bird alone succeeds at bird convocation

Motif

Tardy bird alone succeeds at bird convocation.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · The unpromising surpasses the promising. · view the constellation · filed as L147.1

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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.

general Chauvin V 38 No. 365 n. 1.

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Filed under Tardy surpasses punctual.

Travels with

Animal who arrives late performs tasks for man. (Cf. L147.1.)

wander