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Motif

Accidental discharge of gun kills much game. Gun kills a bird which falls on loose limb of tree, which falls on bear, etc., etc.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: Great hunters and fishermen. · Lie: the great marksman. · view the constellation · filed as X1124.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Friends 154 No. 21.
  • general Type 1890
Within the index

Filed under Lie: the hunter catches or kills game by ingenious or unorthodox method. (Cf. X1132.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Gunshot splits limb and catches feet of birds
Filed beside it
Shooting off the leader's tail. An old blind bear is being led by a young bear, whose tail the old bear has in his mouth. The hunter shoots off the young bear's tail and seizes it. Thus leads the old bear homeHunter turns animal inside out. He reaches down animal's throat, grasps his tail, and turns him inside outHunting wolves with rod and line
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