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- Toad Asks Magpie in Tree to Throw down a Chestnut

Magpie refuses, saying it might break its beak. Toad promises, if that happens, to get a horse-hair to tie it up again. Magpie throws chestnut and breaks beak. Toad asks ass for hair, but ass first demands grass; mower demands sheep; shepherd, pup; mother dog, bread; baker, stumps. Toad cuts the stumps and gets the hair. [Z43.1].

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*Wesselski Hessische Blätter XXXII 24.