Marking the place in the sand. Vessel left under mound in sand while owner is swimming. Others make similar mounds so that it is lost

Motif

Marking the place in the sand. Vessel left under mound in sand while owner is swimming. Others make similar mounds so that it is lost.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd searches for the lost. · view the constellation · filed as J1922.3

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India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Marking the place.

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Marking the place on the boat. An object falls into the sea from a boat. Numskulls mark the place on the boat-rail to indicate where it fell Marking the place under the cloud. Numskulls leave a knife in the field, marking the place by putting it under a heavy cloud. Next day the cloud is gone and the knife lost

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