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Motif

Woman repulses ugly husband's advances. He placates her by telling her that he wants a handsome child.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Retorts between husband and wife. · view the constellation · filed as J1541.3

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Filed under Husband outwits his wife.

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The good words. A man pledged to give his wife only good words hits her with a prayer book The flute makes more noise. A man overcomes his quarrelsome wife by playing the flute as long as she is scolding Husband and wife separate and divide property. Man keeps the house, gives the wife the road

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