"How often do you kill your ducks?" Answer: "Only once."

Motif

"How often do you kill your ducks?" Answer: "Only once."

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked. · view the constellation · filed as J1309.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 20 DEATH OF CUCHULAIN
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XIX XIX. Tabooed Acts
Irish Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic , Tale 2 THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF TURENN;

Cited in the index

general England, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Man asks naked Indian if he is not cold. Indian asks if man's face is cold. Man replies that it is not. Indian replies: "Me all face!" "Where did dirt go when canal was dug?" Disgusted father-in-law: "I have eaten half and your father half, to have such a fool son-in-law."

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