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  2. The Honest Woodcutter - Wikipedia

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    The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream. [2]

  3. The Woodcutter and the Trees - Wikipedia

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    The woodcutter's axe begged for its handle from the tree. The tree gave it. [13] In the Bengali collection, the poem was titled "Politics", and with this clue the reader was expected to interpret the fable in the context of the time as a parable of the imperial stripping of Indian resources. [14]

  4. Duping (video games) - Wikipedia

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    Duping can vastly destabilize a virtual economy or even the gameplay itself, depending on the item duplicated and the rate at which duplication occurs. Modern persistent world games include automated detection of duping. [1] Duping is usually considered to be a game cheat. [2]

  5. Fable (video game series) - Wikipedia

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    The novel was released in North America and Europe in October 2010. The book was released with an exclusive code to unlock a unique weapon in Fable III. [33] [34] [35] The story is told from the point of view of a king of an unknown country who listens to an unnamed story-teller in the Fable universe. It takes place between Fable II and III. [36]

  6. List of licensed and localized editions of Monopoly : USA

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    The board features images of characters, items and locations from nearly all the Zelda video games. All of the paper currency has been renamed after the Zelda video games' currency Rupees. Properties are locations from the Zelda video games. Water Works is replaced by the Potion Shop and the Electric Company is now a Bomb Shop.

  7. The Farmer and the Viper - Wikipedia

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    The family welcomes the frozen snake, a woodcut by Ernest Griset. The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index. [1] It has the moral that kindness to evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom "to nourish a viper in one's bosom".

  8. A Thurber Carnival - Wikipedia

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    The characters are Wolf (Second Man) and Little Girl (Third Woman). Based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, it ends with the girl shooting the wolf, who delivers the fable's moral. The fable first appeared in The New Yorker on January 21, 1939, [9] and was collected in Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (1940).

  9. Fable II Pub Games - Wikipedia

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    The Pub Games offer players a chance to win money and items for their Fable II character, to be given to them once their character has reached adulthood. For every piece of gold won in the tournament section of Pub Games, a piece of gold is added to the Fable II character's wallet, giving players a chance to have a rich character from the start of the game.