Sleeping in shoes to avoid insect bites

Motif

Sleeping in shoes to avoid insect bites.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2102.1

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general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 237 No. 524.

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Filed under Expensive means of being rid of insects.

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Snake rids himself of wasps: he lets himself be run over by a cart wheel along with them Bald man aims at a fly: hurts his head House burned down to rid it of insects Burning the wasp nest. The house catches fire and burns Clothes burned to rid them of insects Crop burned to rid it of insects Frogs to eat insects, snakes to eat frogs. Snakes eat numskull's family

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