The Theft of a Smell

From A Harvest of World Folk Tales (1949- The Viking Press), edited by {{A|Milton Rugoff}}. Excerpt from Chapter 37 of 'The Lives of Gargantua & Pantagruel- Book Third: The Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Worthy Pantagruel, etc.' In Vol.1 of The Extant Works of François Rabelais (1929 Covici Friede Publishers). {{Tr|Samuel Putnam}}. An example of Aarne-Thompson-Uther Tale Type 1804b- Payment wih the Clink of Money. Other versions involve the German trickster Till Eulenspiegel (Tyll Owlglass) & the Middle Eastern comic figure Nasreddin Hodja.