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FFC 90
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"Chestnut!" When she discovers boy he says he has followed her since the first chestnut. an 1. CCA p. 78. as 1. LRAC no 77. Cf Mt 1453**** rejected. | |
| 1458. | Cf Mt 1373—4. |
1475—[1480] Old maid.
| 1476. | See CCA p. 149. |
| *A. | Acolyte hides behind statue of Virgin with Christ Child in arms. Old maid prays before statue for husband. Acolyte answers that she will remain an old maid. She thinks it was Christ speaking and retorts, "Shut up, boy, I am talking to your mother!" an 1. CCA p. 189. |
| *B. | Old lady prays before saint's statue for a husband for her daughter. Sacristan hides behind the statue or the saint grows weary of her so often repeated request and tells her to marry her daughter to sacristan. She does so, but he treats the girl very badly. Old lady returns and rebukes saint. as 1. LRAC no 61. 2. CFAC p. 203. |
| 1477. | Cf Mt *166. |
| *1482. | Stingy dead woman raises her head to correct laundress' account when latter tries to cheat dead woman's daughter. as 1. CFAC p. 204. |
| 1515. | Libro de los ejemplos no CCXXXIV. |
[1516—1520 Marriage is a punishment].
| Cf concl of Mt 754 *C. | |
| *1516. | Widow locks herself in with cobbler, then screams and asserts he has tried to detain her against her will [K 2111]. Poor cobbler is imprisoned. After one year widow has him pardoned under condition |
