A lentil in the soup. You said you wished a lentil soup; so I put one in. If you had wished more lentils you should have said so

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A lentil in the soup. You said you wished a lentil soup; so I put one in. If you had wished more lentils you should have said so.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2469.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 605.

Within the index

Filed under Instructions followed literally – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Taking the prescription. The fool eats the paper with the prescription on it Dividing all they have. So advised, they cut their beds, houses, etc. in two. (Cf. M241.)Boy asked to do something to cool women's ears breaks vessels they carry so milk in them can cool their ears off Literal fool – something you have never experienced

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