Disregard of danger to objects or animals – miscellaneous.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Disregard of danger to objects (or animals). · view the constellation · filed as J2129
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Filed under Disregard of danger to objects (or animals).
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Fools make a boat go over a precipiceQuarreling heirs destroy the entire property involvedGetting all the eggs at once. A peasant kills his hen so that he can immediately get all the eggs she will lay during the next yearFool sticks needle in haywagon. He has been told to stick it in his sleeve. It is lostOld shoes patched with newKeeping rain from the trunks. Numskulls take out the clothing and cover the trunks to keep rain offHorse drawn across ice till skin is rubbed offFool sows his mother's seed rice on other people's fields
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Drying snow on the stoveCandle put in the stove to dry: meltsSunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get lightPutting the fish aside for Easter. They are put in one big pool, but an eel eats them upGuarding chickens from the fox. Numskull ties their beaks and weights them down in the river with stonesNumskull to water roots of tree. Digs up the tree to find the rootsLooking for the hole. Numskull is to carry a can of oil with especial care since it has a little hole in it. In order to find the hole he turns the can about and lets all the oil run out