A three thousand year old debt. Guests in inn discuss reincarnation. "Since we shall come back in three thousand years, the host might trust us till then." Host: "You still owe me what you didn't pay three thousand years ago." — Mythoi

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A three thousand year old debt. Guests in inn discuss reincarnation. "Since we shall come back in three thousand years, the host might trust us till then." Host: "You still owe me what you didn't pay three thousand years ago."

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Retorts concerning debts. · view the constellation · filed as J1384

Cited in the index

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 858.

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Filed under Retorts concerning debts.

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Where you got it last year. Parson tells borrower to get the corn at the same place as he got it last year. There is none there. "Then you didn't return it as you said you would, and there is none to lend you this year." Payers of cash favored Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment

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