Boy who has never seen a real carpet, hops around the side of the room to avoid stepping on the cloth on the floor

Motif

Boy who has never seen a real carpet, hops around the side of the room to avoid stepping on the cloth on the floor.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd ignorance. · Absurd ignorance. · view the constellation · filed as J1742.5.1

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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.

U.S.Baughman.

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Filed under Countryman misunderstands comforts of city. Thinks latrine is kitchen, refuses to take a walk because he fears high houses will fall upon him, etc.

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