Numskulls carry one another through mud and the others back in order that not all get dirty

Motif

Numskulls carry one another through mud and the others back in order that not all get dirty.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2163.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Christensen DF XLVII No. 32.

Within the index

Filed under Carrying the plow horse so as not to tramp up the field. (Cf. J2103.2.)

Filed beside it

Sedan-bearers must carry master about searching for dog since they have refused to search

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