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Motif

Hogs made to sleep in trees to cure their filthy habits. All are killed.

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 J1904.3

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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.

  • EnglandBaughman.
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Filed under Absurd ignorance concerning place for animal to be kept.

Filed beside it
Cow (hog) taken to roof to grazeThe pent cuckoo. Fools build an enclosure to keep in the cuckoo. She flies over the hedge. They say that they have not built the hedge high enoughNest built in tree for fish

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