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The boy's disasters. Foolishly kills his horse and throws his axe into the lake to kill a duck. Undresses to recover axe. Clothes stolen. Goes into barrel of tar to hide. In tar and feathers.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Bungling fool. · Bungling fool. · view the constellation · filed as J2661.4

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  • general *Type 1681.
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Filed under Bungling fool has succession of accidents.

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The fool accidentally kills his child and loses the body The fool seeks a midwife. Accidentally strikes the dog dead, drowns the midwife, and kills the child One woman to catch squirrel; the other to get the cooking pot. One falls from the tree and kills herself; the other breaks the pot
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