The constellation
J751 Consider difficulties of course you are about to undertake
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- Bear builds house of wood; fox of ice. Fox's house fails him in summer · J741.1 entry
- Build shelter for the whole year · J741 entry
- Forethought in provision for shelter · J740 entry
- 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
- 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
- Lady answers queen so straightforwardly she gets light punishment · J751.1.1 entry
- In planning future, profit by the past · J752 entry
- Frogs decide not to jump into the well. Their spring having dried up, they consider jumping into a well. They decide that the well may also dry up · J752.1 entry