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- Mouse gathers rice for man: may eat a little of his rice daily. A2223.3
- Thief followed home. A thief ransacks a man's house and departs. The man gathers together the rest of his belongings and tracks the thief. Comes to the thief's door. Thief: "What do you want with me?" "What, isn't this the house we set out for?" J1392.1
- Host with overstock of sour wine spreads rumor of dragon at his house. A crowd gathers and he sells all his wine. K484.2
- Three lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir. T92.14