The constellation
J2095 To eat a hundred onions. Choice of eating 100 onions, receiving 100 blows, or paying 100 coins. Fool tries onions in vain, then the blows, and finally must give the coins
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- Foolish bargains · J2080 entry
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- Foolish bargain: progressive type · J2081 entry
- Squaring accounts by shaving the wife. A numskull has paid twice the regular amount for a shave. The barber shaves the wife · J2082 entry
- The foolish attempt to cheat the buyer · J2083 entry
- Foolish reward offered · J2085 entry
- The foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase price · J2086 entry
- The persuasive auctioneer. The auctioneer praises the man's worthless cow so much in his speech that the man takes her back himself · J2087 entry
- The considerate seller. A numskull having an over-short turban for sale at auction warns the prospective buyer that it is too short · J2088 entry
- Thief warned what not to steal. The numskull tells the thief where his door-key, his cakes, and his roasts are and warns him not to steal them · J2091 entry
- The trusted porters. A man finds a treasure, but is robbed by porters whom he has employed to rid him of the trouble of carrying it · J2092 entry
- Valuables given away or sold for trifle · J2093 entry