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Repartee regarding the parentage of children – miscellaneous.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning the parentage of children. · view the constellation · filed as J1279

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Filed under Repartee concerning the parentage of children.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Plea for a good father. Mother of twelve on deathbed explains to family that not all her children are legitimate. Gives the paternity of each child. Youngest leaves his food to say: "Please, mother, give me a good father!" (Cf. J325.) Even God can overdo it! Returning sailor finds his hovel transformed into a fine house. "Where does all this come from?" Wife: "God's bounty." Illegitimate child greets mother. Same question, same answer. Sailor: "I don't want God to help me so much!" Suitor hesitates to marry girl as immature (or too delicate). Girl's father protests, saying that she has had three children In numbers there is strength. The children of the Genoese are strong because there is more help
Filed beside it
Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man." The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children Children by day and by night. Artist paints beautiful children but his own are ugly. One kind, he says, are made by day, the other by night His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) The child born too soon

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