Pinhas b.Jari's ass, when stolen by thieves, refused to eat for 3 days because the thieves’ provender had not been tithed.
236 f. 160b. Joshua b. Hananya owned to having been taught a proper lesson by a widow and child. He was invited to dine at her house and ate all she set before him. At the
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3rd course she gave him a dish of very salted food, so as to make him leave at least some of it for other members of the household.—On another occasion whilst he was walking in the middle of a field he was rebuked and told that he was walking on a footpath trodden out by trespassers like himself. He then got water to drink from a girl and said she was like Rebecca, but she retorted that he did not act like Eliezer. He asked her how far it was to the next town and was told that there was a long road which was short and a short which was long. The short way lay through vineyards and fields very difficult to get through and was therefore the longer. The long one was the high road and was an easy walk and therefore the shorter. Seeing her carrying a covered dish he asked what was inside and she retorted that it was covered so as not to be seen by others.