Numskulls make silence wager. Arrested as thieves

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Numskulls make silence wager. Arrested as thieves.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Foolish extremes. · Foolish extreme. · view the constellation · filed as J2511.2

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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.

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Filed under The silence wager. A man and his wife make a wager as to who shall speak first (close the door). The man (woman) becomes jealous and scolds; loses the wager.

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Wager as to who shall rise (speak) first in morning (last up to get reward). They are carried to funeral pyre before they will give in

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