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Motif

Fool believes gold in bag turns to ashes because of child's urinating on it. Actually bag contained only ashes.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Gullible fools. · Nature of gullibility. · view the constellation · filed as J2325.1

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  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Husband made to believe that yarn has changed to tow through his carelessness. Thus his lazy wife is relieved from spinning.

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