The constellation
X754 The meal of beans. One of the old maid's three teeth breaks off
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- Jokes on old maids · X750 entry
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- X751.Marriage forbidden outside the parish. An order is read in church forbidding the young people to marry girls from other parishes · X751 entry
- The old maid in bed. On one side is a bundle of straw (her husband) and on the other a dog (her child). She gives the straw bundle a push and thereupon falls on the floor herself · X752 entry
- A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down · X753 entry
- The wolf steals the old maid. She keeps him for a husband · X755 entry
- The mother trains the old maid to speak properly. Absurd results · X756 entry