The constellation
J2081 Foolish bargain: progressive type
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Foolish bargains · J2080 entry
beneath it
- Foolish bargain: horse for cow, cow for hog, etc. Finally nothing left · J2081.1 entry
- Foolish bargain: good fish for worthless shell; shell with pearl in it for small fish · J2081.2 entry
- Fool exchanges his wife with ox; thinks something to be wrong with her head (she has been marked with red at the parting of her hair) · J2081.3 entry
- Fools sent to buy cow procure a monkey instead · J2081.4 entry