Impossible to eat pearls: also impossible for woman to bear animals (objects)

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Impossible to eat pearls: also impossible for woman to bear animals (objects).

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Cleverness in the lawcourt – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1191.5.1

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Reductio ad absurdum of accusation: object-birth slander. (Later children tell toy animals to drink. No harder than for woman to bear objects.)

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