Persons build a wheelbarrow too large to come out of shed

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Persons build a wheelbarrow too large to come out of shed.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2199.2

Filed across the traditions

England *Baughman.

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Filed under Absurd shortsightedness – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Alarm sounded foolishly Nine men try to lift bull over the fence. One gets the idea of taking it through the gate. (Cf. J2171.6.) Short-sighted economy

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