Beaver sacrifices scrotum to save life. Cuts it off and leaves it for pursuers

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Beaver sacrifices scrotum to save life. Cuts it off and leaves it for pursuers.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Gains and losses. · Choices: small inconvenience, large gain. · view the constellation · filed as J351.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Wienert FFC LVI 63 (ET 264), 141 (ST 475)
general Halm Aesop No. 189.

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Filed under Bodily member(s) sacrificed to save life. (Cf. J341.)

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