"Pick up everything!" Fool loads his master with horse dung

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"Pick up everything!" Fool loads his master with horse dung.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Foolish extremes. · Foolish extreme. · view the constellation · filed as J2516.2.1

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Filed under "Pick up everything!" The youth so instructed picks up too much. The master then tells him to pick things up only when the master gives the signal. The master falls into a hole and cannot give the signal.

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