The constellation
X760 Jokes on courtship
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- The mother trains the old maid to speak properly. Absurd results · X756 entry
- The wolf steals the old maid. She keeps him for a husband · X755 entry
- The meal of beans. One of the old maid's three teeth breaks off · X754 entry
- A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down · X753 entry
- Humor based on drunkenness · X800 entry
- Drunk man lying under his bed thinks he is lying in his shroud. Is cured of drunkenness · X811 entry
- Drunk man goes to the king and wants to buy an island · X812 entry
- Drunk man at the wedding. Goes to sleep and never reaches it, though at home he praises the wedding · X813 entry