Good bath. A cat seeing a mouse leave a bath says, "Good bath!" Mouse: "If I had not seen you!"

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Good bath. A cat seeing a mouse leave a bath says, "Good bath!" Mouse: "If I had not seen you!"

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Animals retort concerning their dangers. · view the constellation · filed as J1422

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general Chauvin III 55 No. 11.

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Peace among the animals. (Peace fable.) The fox tries to beguile the cock by reporting a new law establishing peace among the animals. Dogs appear; the fox flees. "The dogs have not heard of the new law." Roast falcon. A falcon reproaches a cock for fleeing from the master who has fed him. The cock: "I have never seen a falcon roasted." Where the foxes will meet. Two foxes in a trap converse: "Where shall we meet again?" "In three days at the furrier's."

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