The water on the calf's back. When the calf will not drink, the peasant woman throws the water on its back

Motif

The water on the calf's back. When the calf will not drink, the peasant woman throws the water on its back.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard or ignorance of animal's nature or habits. · view the constellation · filed as J1903.1

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general Type 1211*.

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Filed under Absurd ignorance concerning animal's eating and drinking.

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Numskull puts the milk back. When the customer refuses to take the milk he puts it back into the goat's mouth so that it will flow back into the udder Fattening the pig. A farmer who wanted to fatten a pig fed it only twice a day. When told to feed it three times a day he says, "A working man must have more to eat than a pig." How can an elephant eat, having tails at both ends? Decision: it lives on air

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