How the fishes got there. Guests of host who waters his wine put little fishes into the wine jug. "Now I confess that I put water into the wine; otherwise the fishes could not be there."

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How the fishes got there. Guests of host who waters his wine put little fishes into the wine jug. "Now I confess that I put water into the wine; otherwise the fishes could not be there."

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd scientific theories. · Other absurd scientific theories. · view the constellation · filed as J2281

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general *Wesselski Bebel II 109 No. 32.

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