Hare and pig race across ditch. Each fails in his own way, pig behind hare. Which is winner?

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Hare and pig race across ditch. Each fails in his own way, pig behind hare. Which is winner?

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · The unsolved problem: enigmatic ending of tale. · view the constellation · filed as H625

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under The unsolved problem: enigmatic ending of tale.

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Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband)

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