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Motif

Nest built in tree for fish.

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 J1904.4

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Absurd ignorance concerning place for animal to be kept.

1 finer motif beneath it
Fish will climb trees like buffaloes. Numskull considers what will happen if river burns up
Filed beside it
Cow (hog) taken to roof to graze The 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 enough Hogs made to sleep in trees to cure their filthy habits. All are killed

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