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Motifs
- Faithful horse refuses to go before its master mounts it, even when already loaded with two chests with gold. B301.4.6
- Magic gun is always loaded. (Cf. D1096.1.) D1652.4
- Man in otherworld loaded down with wood. Then more and more put on him. F171.6.1
- The overloaded mule. Priest complains that miller's mule is overloaded. "No, he isn't; he can still carry all your and your brothers' patience." J1302
- Officer disarmed by sentry. Army major approaches sentry, takes away his rifle, and reproaches him for allowing himself to be disarmed. Sentry draws pistol from inside shirt, demands return of unloaded rifle. J1526.1
- The lazy ass repaid in kind. Loaded with salt, he falls down in the river and lightens his burden. His master then loads him with sponges so that the next time the ass tries the trick he increases his load. J1612
- Ass loaded and commanded to go home. J1881.2.1
- Game won with loaded dice. K92.2
- Man forbids wife to open chest. Loaded crossbow placed in it. She opens it and is killed. T254.4
- Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill. X1785.1