The constellation
J740 Forethought in provision for shelter
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- More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold · J731.1 entry
- Do not discard clothing till cold weather is over · J731 entry
- Forethought in provision for clothing · J730 entry
- Eagle warns shepherds that wolf is eating sheep. Crow rebukes eagle for thus imperiling his own food supply · J715.1 entry
- Build shelter for the whole year · J741 entry
- Bear builds house of wood; fox of ice. Fox's house fails him in summer · J741.1 entry
- Consider difficulties of course you are about to undertake · J751 entry
- Truth the best policy. Servant about to be caught for theft rehearses the lie he is to tell his master. He finds lies so transparent that he decides to tell the truth · J751.1 entry