Beggar with small bag surpasses the one with the large. Latter refuses all but large donations; gets none

Motif

Beggar with small bag surpasses the one with the large. Latter refuses all but large donations; gets none.

Reversal of fortune. · Modesty brings reward. · Modest business plans best. · view the constellation · filed as L251

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 607
general *Crane Vitry 168 No. 77
general Alphabet No. 607.

Within the index

Filed under Modest business plans best.

Travels with

Small jug preferred. Man asks that large jug be filled with wine. Is told to go to the river. Is accommodated when he presents small jug. (Cf. L251.)

wander