The teeth of the puppy are growing while the old dog is gnawing bones, [347]

The tender surgeon makes a foul wound, [102]

The thief becomes the gallows well, [269]

The thief cannot find any tree that suits him for a gallows, [147]

The thief is frightened even by a mouse, [69]

The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows, [288]

The thief thinks that all men are like himself, [240], [288]

The thief’s wife does not always laugh, [114]

The third person makes good company, [304]

The thirteenth man brings death, [304]