The long day. If the clock is still striking it must be 50 o'clock — Mythoi

Motif

The long day. If the clock is still striking it must be 50 o'clock.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2466.3

Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 207 No. 9
general Scotland, U.S.: Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Literal following of the count.

Filed beside it

A pebble for each sin. A man cannot remember the number of his sins. The priest has him put a pebble in a sack for each of his sins. He comes to confession with three large sacks of pebbles The reckoning of the pot. A man counts the days of the fastmonth by throwing a pebble each day into a pot. His daughter throws a handful of pebbles in. Asked the day of the month, he says that it is the 125th

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