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- Substitution of low-caste boy for promised child detected when he prefers long road to short one through jungle (swimming instead of ferry, etc.) H38.2.5
- King prefers educated men as company. J146.1
- Town mouse and country mouse. Latter prefers poverty with safety. J211.2
- Heathcock prefers home with hardships to travel in foreign lands. J215.3
- Lamb prefers to be sacrificed in temple rather than to be eaten by a wolf. J216.2
- Rower prefers to be stoned by his master rather than remain out in the storm. J229.7
- Weaver prefers master with one hedgehog. Insists on his master putting hedgehog out of house. When master refuses, weaver leaves. Next master has two hedgehogs, and next has three. Weaver returns to first master. J229.8.1
- Man prefers servant girl who is present to her absent mistress. J326
- Soldier prefers to live rather than die and be avenged on enemy. J327
- Fox prefers to bear weight of his tail rather than give part of it to ape. J341.1
- Prince prefers first love to princess he later marries. J414.2
- Man prefers to live with ordinary rather than with pious man. He will be virtuous by comparison. J417
- Unnecessary choice: to go uphill or downhill. Camel prefers the level. J463
- Tame dog prefers food basin to fleeing hare. J487
- Little men preferred to big men. Preacher prefers small men because the intellect has difficulty in reaching to one's heels. J493
- Eagle prefers own offspring to changeling. J497
- King has earthen vessels placed on table among the golden ones. He had formerly been a potter and prefers the vessels which he had made to the ones now molding him. J913
- The cock and the pearl: prefers a single corn to a peck of pearls. J1061.1
- Baptized wine. Christ's making wine from water has made all landlords try to do it too. Man prefers Jewish wine to the baptized kind. J1312.3
- Man prefers small oysters, since he will get more to the hundred. J2213.8