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How to tell the right hand in the dark. Numskull keeps the candle at his right side as he goes to bed so that he can do so.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd ignorance. · Absurd ignorance. · view the constellation · filed as J1735.1

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  • general Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 235 No. 104.
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Filed under Fool cannot tell his right hand in the dark.

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