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J2160 Other short-sighted acts
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- Short-sightedness in dressing · J2161 entry
- Short-sighted use of fire · J2162 entry
- Carrying the plow horse so as not to tramp up the field. (Cf. J2103.2.) · J2163 entry
- Short-sightedness in rowing · J2164 entry
- Carrying load up hill to roll it down. Fools carry log (millstone) down hill. They realize that they might have rolled it down. They therefore carry it back up hill to roll it down · J2165 entry
- Short-sighted lover is slow to follow up advantage · J2166 entry
- Porridge eaten in different rooms. The porridge in one, the milk in another · J2167 entry
- The slaughter of the ox. In preparation, the feet are cut off the evening before · J2168 entry
- Short-sightedness in carpentry · J2171 entry
- Short-sightedness in caring for live-stock · J2172 entry
- Short-sighted fool loses his food · J2173 entry
- Foolish demands before death · J2174 entry
- Short-sightedness in dealing with children · J2175 entry
- Fool lets wine run in the cellar. He (she) falls into a study (or chases a dog) while the spigot is open · J2176 entry
- No room left for the feast. A peasant on the way to a feast drinks so much ditch-water that he has no room left for the feast · J2178 entry
- Burning up the seal. Numskulls buy a charter from their lord. In celebration they get drunk and use the seal as a candle and forfeit their charter · J2181 entry
- A fleeing fox loses an eye in the briars. Returns the next day and eats it, thinking that it tastes like chicken · J2182 entry
- Disastrous hesitation · J2183 entry
- The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them · J2184 entry
- Dearly bought disgrace. A foolish priest is pushed into the water. "I wish I had drowned; then you would all have been disgraced." · J2185 entry
- Trickster's false creations fail him. A trickster creates men from his excrements (or the like). They melt in the sun · J2186 entry
- The bear riding the horse lets his paws fall on the horse's flanks. He is caught on a tree and leaves his claws in the horse's flesh · J2187 entry
- The man who wanted to be dead one day. A husband tells his wife that he has provisions for every day in the year but one. He proposes to play dead for that one day, thinking that the servants will be overcome with grief and cannot eat. After brief mourning, however, they eat more than usual. The man then thinks to frighten them by rising from the dead. One servant thinking the dead man suffering from devils kills him · J2188 entry
- A fool releases a bear while the master is away. The bear plays havoc. The master threatens to cut off the ears of the meddler. The fool asks his dog not to tell on him · J2191 entry