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Guess what I have in my hand and I will give it to you to make egg-cake with. What does it look like? What outside and yellow inside. It is a hollowed turnip filled with carrots.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · The easy problem made hard. · The easy problem made hard. · view the constellation · filed as J2712.1

Cited in the index
  • general Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 209 No. 15.
Within the index

Filed under "What do I hold in my hand?" (Ring). "In its first state it was in the mountains; it is round and flat." Fool: "A millstone."

Filed beside it
Guess how many eggs I have and you shall get all seven

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