Absurd sympathy for animals or objects – miscellaneous

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Absurd sympathy for animals or objects – miscellaneous.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Animals or objects treated as if human. · Absurd sympathy for animals or objects. · view the constellation · filed as J1879

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Men drag carts on to roof to shade it from the sun

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Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home Creaking limbs. Numskull hears limbs creaking in the wind. He is sorry for them and holds them apart. While he is caught between them his enemies take advantage of him Animals or objects kept warm Relieving the beast of burden Objects ascribed human feelings

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