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Motif

The hay wagon and the gate. A parson arriving late at a city gate asks if he can get in. Guard sees that he is fat and in fun says that he doesn't know. The parson: "Why not; doesn't the hay wagon get in?"

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning fatness. · view the constellation · filed as J1411

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda.
  • general *Wesselski Arlotto II 265 No. 209
Within the index

Filed under Repartee concerning fatness.

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