"Why didn't you stay on the horse?" The rider: "I couldn't; you see, it ended there" (pointing to horse's head) — Mythoi

Motif

"Why didn't you stay on the horse?" The rider: "I couldn't; you see, it ended there" (pointing to horse's head).

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1483.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Repartee concerning runaway horses.

Filed beside it

King and jester flee: the king's swift horse. Jester: "You did have a swift horse. When I had to stop because my horse was tired out, you went two miles further." Where his mule will. A man on a runaway mule is asked, "Where are you going?" "Wherever my mule wants to." Storms on land. An inexperienced rider borrows a horse, which runs away with him. He says, "There are no such storms on sea as on the land."

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