Boy who worked for "nothing at all" goes to town and demands "nothing at all." (Cf. J2489.10.)

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Boy who worked for "nothing at all" goes to town and demands "nothing at all." (Cf. J2489.10.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal fool – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J2496.1

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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 Penzer V 97.

Within the index

Filed under "I don't know" thought to be a person's name. A man in a country that cannot speak his language hears "I don't know" so frequently that he thinks it must be the name of the owner of all the places he inquires about.

Filed beside it

Misunderstandings because of lack of knowledge of a different language than one's own

Travels with

Payment with "something or other." Offered money, fools insist on "something or other."

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