Bugs unable to eat honey at banquet of bees, and bees unable to eat dung at bug's dinner

Motif

Bugs unable to eat honey at banquet of bees, and bees unable to eat dung at bug's dinner.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1565.2

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.

Within the index

Filed under Inappropriate entertainment repaid.

Filed beside it

Fox and crane invite each other. Fox serves the food on a flat dish so that the crane cannot eat. Crane serves his food in a bottle Crop division between parrot and cat: they try to cheat each other by inviting to a dinner in turns every day

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