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Filed under Practical retorts: hosts and guests.

8 finer motifs beneath it
The guest who could not keep warm. He keeps calling for more bed clothes. The host finally piles a ladder, a trough, etc., on top of him until he calls for helpGuests make impossible demands of host: host's representative forces guests to leave by sending them on difficult questBread baked with onions for an undesirable guestProper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the secondGuests frightened away by housewifeWhen hints do not get rid of unwelcome guests, force must be used. Thus man treats his sons-in-lawA sham fight to frighten away the guestsPriest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague
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Inhospitality repaidThe greedy hostTalker keeps person from eatingInappropriate entertainment repaidLuxury of host rebukedHost rebukes negligent servantGuest brings along cakes to eat. Stingy host rebuked"Cause liberality to be depicted." Answer of hungry man when host asks for suggestion for a picture to be painted of something that has not been seenDeceptive invitation to feast

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