Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason

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Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1563.5.2

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Wife prepares the pestle. Tells guests husband uses it against guests. They flee. Tells husband they left because she refused to give them pestle. Husband pursues to give them the pestle, but they run the faster. (Cf. K2137.)

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