The constellation
J2032 Are there nine or ten geese? Ten men are called in; each is to take a goose. If all have a goose, there are ten. One man is left without one. Numskull: "You should have taken one before they were all gone."
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- Absurd inability to count · J2030 entry
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- Counting wrong by not counting oneself. Numskulls conclude that one of their number is drowned · J2031 entry
- Three girls distressed by seemingly impossible task of going and returning together – one in half month, other in fifteen days, other in seven plus eight days · J2033 entry
- The interrupted calculation. While the merchant is making calculations, he asks the age of his youngest daughter, the elder daughter, and the mother, and always adds this to the number he has reached · J2035 entry
- Keeping the measure by stretching out the arms. Numskull goes to buy goods for his wife · J2036 entry
- Numskulls buy things in common: each pays full price · J2037 entry