Task: teaching animal to speak

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Task: teaching animal to speak.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1024.7

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Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of animals.

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Task: teaching horse to speak

Filed beside it

Task: milking a bull Task: placing frogs in a tree Task: chasing a hare into every trap in a high tree Task: teaching an ass to read Task: sowing dragon's teeth Task: procuring bird out of season Task: spinning wool still on goat's back

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