Bird nest of salt melts away

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Bird nest of salt melts away.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2171.5

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Short-sightedness in carpentry.

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Short-sightedness in boat-building 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 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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