Trying to swim in the mist. Mistaken for sea

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Trying to swim in the mist. Mistaken for sea.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · Inappropriate action from misunderstanding. · view the constellation · filed as J1821.1

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TongaGifford 98.

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Filed under Swimming (fishing) in the flax-field. Peasants go to visit the sea. They see a waving flax-field, and, thinking it is the sea, jump in to swim.

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