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Filed under Absurd plans. Air-castles.

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Sacrifice of one son to get another. A woman plans to sacrifice her only son so that the gods will permit her to give birth to another son
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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 airFools cast lots for royal purple of queen who is still aliveAir-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 waiting

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