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Filed under Absurd plans. Air-castles.

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Quarrel and fight over details of air-castlesMan plants hedge: sheep will leave wool on the thorns and bring richesTo build a palace in the sky: hawk as architect is let fly in the airAir-castle shattered by lack of forethoughtFoolish illustration of argumentDistress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leavesServant plans to deceive his master by refusing to eatFoolish waitingSacrifice equal to the reward

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