Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales

1917: The Stretching and Shrinking Harness

ATU > 1200-1999: ANECDOTES AND JOKES > 1875-1999: Tall Tales > 1917: The Stretching and Shrinking Harness

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A man driving a team with a wagon in the rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Later when…

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