Numskull referring to a forgotten name keeps saying "I have lost it." People dive into tank to recover treasure they think he has lost

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Numskull referring to a forgotten name keeps saying "I have lost it." People dive into tank to recover treasure they think he has lost.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1805.3

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Other misunderstandings of words.

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wander