Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc

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Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Talkative fools. · Talkative fools. · view the constellation · filed as J2355

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SpanishBoggs FFC XC 53 No. 400*B.
general *Type 1541

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2 finer motifs beneath it

Fool loses magic objects by talking about them Boy talks about his secret instructions and brings his father's theft to light. He is to avoid his companions lest they smell what he has been eating

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