Which mare is mother of colt: colt taken in boat to the middle of river; mother will swim to it

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Which mare is mother of colt: colt taken in boat to the middle of river; mother will swim to it.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever judicial decisions. · view the constellation · filed as J1171.4

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Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered The woman with two husbands is to be killed. One of the husbands refuses to bury her. She is awarded to the other

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