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X230 Jokes about butchers
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- Tailors cowards as warriors: go home to their needles. (Cf. W121.) · X223 entry
- Tailor always associated with goat · X222 entry
- Thieving tailor can hide stolen cloth even in needle-and-thread tube · X221.2 entry
- Thievish tailor cuts a piece of his own coat · X221.1 entry
- Butcher wonders that man who has been buying his meat for seven years can still be alive · X231 entry
- Jokes about cobblers (shoemakers) · X240 entry
- Ugly cobbler continually threatens to throw his last at people. The object of jokes · X241 entry
- Shoemaker drinks more than his portion of "drink of lies", which has been prepared for all to partake of equally · X242 entry