Short-sighted fool loses his food.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2173
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Sleeping trickster's feast stolen. Before eating his booty the numskull sleepsGetting a sword to lift the cheese. A numskull sees a cheese by the side of the road and tries to lift it up with his sword, but the sword is too short. He leaves the cheese and goes away to borrow a longer sword. Meantime someone else takes the cheeseThe bird boasts about capturing the rabbit. Meantime other birds eat the rabbitDeer lost through premature celebration. A fool in celebration of the capture of a deer puts his clothes on the bound deer. He throws a knife to cut the deer's throat but the knife cuts the snare and the deer runs away with the clothesFool kills chickens by throwing them off a balcony against a stone. Kites carry them offCrocodile goes after the second child. He finds two children bathing in the river and carries one to his hole. He tells the child to wait while he goes for the other child. Both children escapeTrickster travels while fish cook: they burn upMan saves trouble by milking cow directly into his mouthHow to remove hairs from salt. Washed with water, salt melts away
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Short-sightedness in dressingShort-sighted use of fireCarrying the plow horse so as not to tramp up the field. (Cf. J2103.2.)Short-sightedness in rowingCarrying load up hill to roll it down. Fools carry log (millstone) down hill. They realize that they might have rolled it down. They therefore carry it back up hill to roll it downShort-sighted lover is slow to follow up advantagePorridge eaten in different rooms. The porridge in one, the milk in anotherThe slaughter of the ox. In preparation, the feet are cut off the evening beforeShort-sightedness in carpentryShort-sightedness in caring for live-stockFoolish demands before deathShort-sightedness in dealing with childrenFool lets wine run in the cellar. He (she) falls into a study (or chases a dog) while the spigot is openNo room left for the feast. A peasant on the way to a feast drinks so much ditch-water that he has no room left for the feastBurning up the seal. Numskulls buy a charter from their lord. In celebration they get drunk and use the seal as a candle and forfeit their charterA fleeing fox loses an eye in the briars. Returns the next day and eats it, thinking that it tastes like chicken