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J1270 Repartee concerning the parentage of children
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- Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man." · J1271 entry
- The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children · J1272 entry
- Children by day and by night. Artist paints beautiful children but his own are ugly. One kind, he says, are made by day, the other by night · J1273 entry
- His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) · J1274 entry
- The child born too soon · J1276 entry
- Repartee regarding the parentage of children – miscellaneous · J1279 entry