The cat and the eel-pie. Woman puts cat in flour bin to catch a mouse. The cat eats the pie in the bin and loses interest in the mouse

Motif

The cat and the eel-pie. Woman puts cat in flour bin to catch a mouse. The cat eats the pie in the bin and loses interest in the mouse.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2103.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheese.

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