Gardener who plants vegetable tends it best

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Gardener who plants vegetable tends it best.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Other aspects of wisdom. · Self-dependence. · view the constellation · filed as J1033

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general Wienert FFC LVI 74 (ET 391), 145 (ST 508)
general Halm Aesop No. 191.

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Grain will be cut when farmer attends to it himself. Lark leaves her young in the cornfield. They hear farmer tell sons to go to neighbors for help in harvesting. Lark tells young not to worry. Same when he sends for relatives. Farmer decides to harvest it himself. Larks move, for they now know that it will be done Stag found by master when overlooked by servants. Hides under hay and escapes until master himself comes Gods help those who help themselves. Ox driver must put his shoulder to the wheel before Hercules will help him

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