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The Thief and His Master
· A man apprentices his son to a master thief, who says that if he can recognize his son in a year, he won't need to pay for the apprenticeship, whereas if he doesn'trecognize his son, he'll have to pay the master thief for his time.
· The man agrees, and then receives advice from a dwarf about putting out bread, which makes his son in bird-form peek out. The man claims his son and they leave without paying the master thief.
· The son transforms himself into a greyhound, which the man sells to a nobleman. The son runs away after the father has the money. They repeat the ploy with the son as a horse, but the father forgets to take off the bridle, so the son cannot escape when the master thief (in disguise, duh) purchases him and takes him home.
· When the bridle's finally taken off, the son becomes a bird, but so does the master thief, and they have a shape-changing contest.
· Finally, the master thief becomes a rooster, and the boy becomes a fox, who bites off the rooster's head.
· So the son is free to go.