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- The widow's meal. King upbraids wind for blowing away a poor widow's last cup of meal. Finds that the wind has saved a ship full of people by that very act. The king is humbled. J355.1
- Corpse to be cut in two for easy carrying. Husband who feigns death hears wife propose this. He upbraids her; she replies: "If you had really died I should have given myself up to be burnt." J1545.8
- Repentant thief pretends to have found stolen cow. Upbraids owner for not guarding her better. K416
- Time seems short to those who play, long for those who wait. So says servant girl whose mistress upbraids her for late hours. U261