μῦθοι Mythoi
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One fewer to pay for. A man carries blind men over a stream at a certain price per head. One falls down and drowns. He comforts the others that there is one fewer to pay for.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Thankful fools. · Thankful fools. · view the constellation · filed as J2566

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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 Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 207 No. 14.

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