Wild-boar sharpens tusks when no enemy is in sight. Tells fox that when enemy comes there are other things to do

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Wild-boar sharpens tusks when no enemy is in sight. Tells fox that when enemy comes there are other things to do.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in conflicts with others. · Forethought in defences against others. · view the constellation · filed as J674.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 Wienert FFC LVI 61 (ET 237), 108 (ST 203)
general Halm Aesop No. 407.

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Filed under Defences in and out of season.

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Man decides to make himself strong in peaceful times rather than wait until attacked

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