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- Task: hatching boiled eggs; countertask: sowing cooked seeds and harvesting the crop. (Cf. H951, H952.) H1023.1.1
- Grain will be cut when farmer attends to it himself. Lark leaves her young in the cornfield. They hear farmer tell sons to go to neighbors for help in harvesting. Lark tells young not to worry. Same when he sends for relatives. Farmer decides to harvest it himself. Larks move, for they now know that it will be done. J1031
- Suit for chickens produced from boiled eggs. Countertask: harvesting crop produced from cooked seeds. J1191.2
- Harvesting early for half a crop. J1932.6
- Harvesting contest. K42
- Contest: harvesting the hay. The man calls out, "The wolves are coming!" The ogre is intimidated. K42.0.1
- During rainy spring, farmer wishes that Lord would sleep till harvest time. Farmer himself sleeps until all neighbors have finished harvesting. When he wakes, he finds his crops ruined. (Cf. Q235.) Q585.3
- Lie: harvesting great vegetable. X1401.2