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Wager: who can call three tree names first. The bear names different varieties of the same tree, so that the fox wins the wagerWager: it is an auspicious day. In spite of all misfortunes wagerer insists that he is right. (Cf. N127.)Shooting contest on wagerWager: woman to turn somersault in middle of public square. It is performed not exactly in the center of the square; hence she losesWager that falsehood is better than truth. Left to unjust umpire, so that falsehood winsWager: more doctors than men of other professions. The trickster feigns toothache. Everyone suggests remedies. He takes down their names as doctors and wins the wagerWager: fortune made from capital or from working at vocation. Test: money given to workman is stolen or lost; lead for his work given him is lent to fisherman who rewards him with a fish in which is a diamondWager: woman can be forced to give alms. Trickster announces that only those who have deceived their husbands are exemptWager: to begin sermon with illustration from card-playing. Card-playing parson wins the wagerWager on second marvelous object. First object has proved to be ordinary. King induced to make large wager that second is ordinary. He losesWager: whose hunger is it more difficult to appease – that of man or that of beast? When nuts are strewn before master's well-fed guests, they snatch and eat them. Herdsman wins wagerWager: to swallow egg with one gulp. Tricksters give numskull egg with chick in it. Fool hears chick peep as he starts to swallow his egg, but he says that the chick peeped too lateWager: bullock to defeat elephant. Elephant is frightened and fleesGhoulish wager won

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