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The abbot cannot find his needle. An undesirable abbot furnishes adequate grounds for his dismissal when he cannot find the needle that all monks are supposed to carry with them. If careless in little things he will be careless in great.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Miscellaneous clever acts. · Miscellaneous clever acts. · view the constellation · filed as J1651

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 62.

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