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X113 Misunderstanding and quarrels in family of deaf
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- Humor of deafness · X110 entry
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- Deaf husband orders deaf wife to prepare a certain dish: misunderstanding · X112 entry
- Travelers pass through Wesley. One asks name of town; another replies, "This is Wesley." Another says, "I thought it was Thursday." Third says, "So am I; let's have a drink." · X111.15 entry
- Deaf litigants and deaf judge misunderstand one another. (Cf. X111.1.) · X111.14 entry
- The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." · X111.13 entry
- Humor of bad eyesight · X120 entry
- The wife who saw double. Sees two plates where there are one, etc. Thinks two men are with her. Husband: "See everything double except your husband." · X121 entry
- The squint-eyed son and the bottle. Sent by his father to get the only bottle of rare wine, he sees two. Not wishing to show his father to be a liar, he breaks one – really the only one · X121.1 entry
- One-eyed man as appraiser of horse. Has appraised it at half a mark. "He saw only half a horse; otherwise he would have valued it at a mark." · X122 entry