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Motif

Game rolls down hill in snow; snowball builds up around game, keeps it fresh and protected until used.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: Great hunters and fishermen. · Lie: hunter's unusual experiences. · view the constellation · filed as X1130.1

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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.

  • U.S.*Baughman.
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Filed under Lie: hunter's unusual experiences.

Filed beside it
Fruit tree grows from head of deer shot with fruit pitsWater of stream or lake freezes just as frogs jump into lake. The frogs are caught in the iceIngenious skinning of animalLie: the hunter in danger

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