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- Well shoots up high as pillars, and discharges itself into navigable streams. (Cf. D926.) F718.11
- Inhospitable host punished for hospitality. An abbot has his innkeeper treat his guests with the most shameful neglect. A guest retaliates by telling the abbot that he has been very sumptuously entertained. The innkeeper is discharged. J1561.2
- Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge. K633
- Hercules spins for his beloved. Is forced to dress as woman and discharge womanly duties including spinning. K1214
- Accidental discharge of gun kills much game. Gun kills a bird which falls on loose limb of tree, which falls on bear, etc., etc. X1124.3