Oil well digger runs out of money, leaves the country, forgetting to tell his driller. He returns fifty years later, finds the driller still drilling away

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Oil well digger runs out of money, leaves the country, forgetting to tell his driller. He returns fifty years later, finds the driller still drilling away.

Traits of character. · Favorable traits of character. · Other favorable traits of character. · view the constellation · filed as W37.1

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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.

U.S.Baughman.

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Filed under Conscientiousness.

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Man never breaks his word Man keeps promise to return to be eaten by tiger: let go without harm Rabbi returns jewel found with bought ass. He had not paid for it

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