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Filed under Foolish bargains.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Numskull gives away the old water bag in which the money is hidWoman gives a jewel for a salad. The recipient is also a numskull and doesn't know its valueFool ignorant of value of jewel throws it awayGood timber given for useless because wife says they will have only sickness and troubleSacks of gold and silver traded for sacks of riceGold and jewels sold for trifle
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Foolish bargain: progressive typeSquaring accounts by shaving the wife. A numskull has paid twice the regular amount for a shave. The barber shaves the wifeThe foolish attempt to cheat the buyerFoolish reward offeredThe foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase priceThe persuasive auctioneer. The auctioneer praises the man's worthless cow so much in his speech that the man takes her back himselfThe considerate seller. A numskull having an over-short turban for sale at auction warns the prospective buyer that it is too shortThief warned what not to steal. The numskull tells the thief where his door-key, his cakes, and his roasts are and warns him not to steal themThe trusted porters. A man finds a treasure, but is robbed by porters whom he has employed to rid him of the trouble of carrying itExpensive wood burned to make charcoalTo eat a hundred onions. Choice of eating 100 onions, receiving 100 blows, or paying 100 coins. Fool tries onions in vain, then the blows, and finally must give the coinsStupid boy convinced that trading all his silver for worthless cup will gain people's respectFoolish bargain: miscellaneous

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