Message after a week. A fool is sent to tell his master's wife that he will not return that day for dinner. He delays the message for a week

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Message after a week. A fool is sent to tell his master's wife that he will not return that day for dinner. He delays the message for a week.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2192.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Crane Italian Popular Tales 378.

Within the index

Filed under The messenger without the message. A fool is told that he is to go to a neighboring castle the next morning. He is to take letters, but the next morning without reporting for instructions the fool goes on the journey. He is given a bag of stones to carry back.

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