Numskulls attempt to capture moon and bring it home in a sledge. They get to the top of the hill a few minutes too late to reach it

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Numskulls attempt to capture moon and bring it home in a sledge. They get to the top of the hill a few minutes too late to reach it.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd scientific theories. · Absurd astronomical theories. · view the constellation · filed as J2271.4

Cited in the index

general England, Scotland: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd theories concerning the moon.

Filed beside it

The local moon. Numskull greets old moon as if it were new. "I haven't seen it before, for I have just come to the city." (Each town thought to have a different moon.) What becomes of the old moon? Numskulls try to throw the moon over a cliff

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