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  • general De Vries FFC LXXIII 254.
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Filed under Clever youth (maiden) answers king's inquiry in riddles. (Cf. H561.4.)

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King: What do you see? Youth: One and a half men and a horse's head. (Himself, the legs of the king on horseback in the door, and the horse's head.)King: What is your father doing? Youth: He is in the vineyard and is doing good and bad. (He prunes vines and sometimes cuts good and sometimes lets bad ones stay.)King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He hunts; he throws away what he catches and what he does not catch he carries with him. (Hunts for lice on his body.)King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She does for another what the latter cannot do for her. (Lays out a corpse.)King: What is your sister doing? Youth: She is mourning last year's laughter. (Nurses child, the fruit of last year's love affair.)King: What are you doing? Youth: I boil those which come and go. (Beans which keep rising and falling in water.)Maiden (to king): The house has neither eyes nor ears. (No child at window nor dog in yard to announce king's approach: he therefore finds her not dressed to receive him.)Maiden (to king): Shall I feed you with loss or gain. (A slaughtered hen or milk.)Girl to king: Should it (the flood) come I shall not come; should it not come, I shall come
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