More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold

Motif

More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in provision for live. · Forethought in provision for clothing. · view the constellation · filed as J731.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 348), 122 (ST 316)
general Halm Aesop No. 304.

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Filed under Do not discard clothing till cold weather is over.

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