Bald man aims at a fly: hurts his head

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Bald man aims at a fly: hurts his head.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2102.3

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general Jacobs Aesop 204 No. 18
general Wienert FFC LVI 67 (ET 313), 128 (ST 361).

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Filed under Expensive means of being rid of insects.

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Sleeping in shoes to avoid insect bites Snake rids himself of wasps: he lets himself be run over by a cart wheel along with them 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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