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Motif

Priest forbidden to have female servant ostentatiously washes his own clothes. Bishop reverses the order.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · One absurdity rebukes another. · view the constellation · filed as J1539.1

Cited in the index
  • general Nouvelles Récréations No. 34.
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Filed under One absurdity rebukes another – miscellaneous.

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Scholar given third egg. A scholar, showing his skill in logic, proves that two chickens (or eggs) on the table are really three. His father (or host) takes one chicken for himself, gives the other to the mother, tells son that he can have the third one

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