Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week

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Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning drunkenness. · view the constellation · filed as J1322.2

Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Arlotto I 208 No. 45.

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Filed under The great thirst.

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Will take care of the thirst. Doctors consult how to rid fever-stricken drunkard of his great thirst. "You take care of the fever; I shall take care of the thirst."

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