Master sets servant example by eating rind first: fills up and never reaches the fruit

Motif

Master sets servant example by eating rind first: fills up and never reaches the fruit.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2178.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under No 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 feast.

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