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Thrown out for paying a hundred rupees for a book with one verse in it, a young man answers every question anyone asks him with that verse — and it answers for him.
A mouse can leap to any height and raid a monk's hanging begging bowl every night. A visiting monk works out why, and the leaping stops.
A woman offers husked sesame in exchange for unhusked — plainly a good bargain for whoever takes it. One boy asks why she would offer it at all.
A hunter and a boar kill each other in one exchange. A jackal arrives to find days of food — and decides to begin with the bowstring.
A weaver good enough to clothe kings never earns more than his food and clothes. Twice he makes a fortune abroad, and twice it disappears on the road home.
A jackal's wife is certain that something is about to drop off the bull any day now. The two of them follow him for fifteen years.