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- End of world when stars in one constellation overtake those in another. A1051.2
- Injunction: sleep where night overtakes you. Otherwise misfortune will come. C683
- Dupe waits for rear wheels of wagon to overtake front wheels. Is told that money is thus made. J2066.7
- The wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogs. K451.2
- Girl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have gone. T92.4
- Only one person can overtake hero. Z313.1