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3.5 (M) A prince is granted his wish to be immortal; he lives un-
happily ever after. 24:8o-81.
3.6 (M) Horns grow on a king's head. Although his hair covers them,
the king's barber cannot contain the secret and shouts "The king
has horns!" into a hole. A tree grows from the hole; it bears leaves
on which the gossip is inscribed. 15:134-135; 30:239-240.
3.7 (N) A slave who insists that a frog has spoken to him is whipped
for lying after the frog fails to speak before others. Later the frog
tells the slave that he did not offer proof because the slave talks
too much. (Two variants; in the second it is a turtle who sings,
plays the banjo, and admonishes "Live in peace; don't tell all you
see.") 10o:48-50.
3.8 Man gives his sons a bundle of sticks and tells them to break the
bundle. They cannot. He shows how the bundle can be broken
stick by stick. (Informant understood the moral to be: large tasks
are accomplished bit by bit.) 31:26-27.
3.9 (Kiowa-Apache) Man's arms argue with him about which of them
is the more valuable to him. His right arm grabs the man's knife,
stabs him. 22: o08.
3.io A fox is unsuccessful in flattering a hen so that she will descend
from the roost--approaching farmer causes the fox to flee. "The
flatter seldom gains his ends;/The wise are never without friends."
6:65-66.
3.11 A friend tells a lazy farmer to rise early, he will see a white
sparrow. The sparrow is not seen but the farmer catches his em-
ployees stealing from him and becomes more prosperous as a result
of rising early. 30: 261.
3.12 Man shows his young friend through a cave of riches. The young
man can have anything he wants if he "doesn't forget the best."
When they leave, the door locks. The young man has forgotten
"the best"-the key. 31:25-26.
3.13 (M) Folk doctor believes that the huisache tree will cure any-
thing. On successive days he gives a patient the leaves, twigs, and
bark of the tree; but the patient gets worse. On the fourth day,
the patient is given wood from the heart of the tree. He dies; the
tree dies. 28:158-159.
3.14 A wise man, ready to die because he thinks he knows everything,
realizes that a slave boy knows more than he because the boy has
cleverly carried a live coal, without using a shovel, to light the
man's pipe. The wise man had never learned this trick. 13:91-92.661
SYNOPSES 3.5 - 3. 14
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