Modest parting gift best – meat or bones. Bones thrown to pursuing dogs delay them and allow escape; not so with meat.
Reversal of fortune. · Modesty brings reward. · Modest request best. · view the constellation · filed as L222.2
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
Filed under Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse.
Filed beside it
ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “pursuing” · wander