Short-sightedness in boat-building

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Short-sightedness in boat-building.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2171.1

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Filed under Short-sightedness in carpentry.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Ship built with a wooden saw. The ship has no bottom and is so narrow that nothing can get into it The ogre tars the hero's boat, thinking to injure him Dupe makes boat of mud. It melts. (Cf. J2186.)

Filed beside it

Short-sightedness in roofing Builders throw away beams from the scaffolding until it all falls down The axes thrown away. The first lets his axe fall. The others throw theirs in the same place Bird nest of salt melts away Man on camel has doorway broken down so he can ride in. It does not occur to him to dismount. (Cf. J2199.3.)

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