Slow flying swan lasts longer than speedy crow in flying

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Slow flying swan lasts longer than speedy crow in flying.

Reversal of fortune. · Triumph of the weak. · Triumph of the weak – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as L394

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Triumph of the weak – miscellaneous.

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Needle kills an elk. Slips into his stomach Mouse stronger than wall, wind, mountain Only love to offer. Bride asks suitors what they have to offer her. Poor youth who has nothing but love to offer gets her Frog, tortoise, fish each tell of how long they expect to live. Frog alone does not expect to live to a hundred and ten years and alone escapes fisherman's net

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