μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • ChineseGraham.
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Filed under Foolish bargains.

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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 itValuables given away or sold for trifleExpensive 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 coinsFoolish bargain: miscellaneous

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