Why no millers in hell. A mad dog in place of a miller in a sack

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Why no millers in hell. A mad dog in place of a miller in a sack.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with tradesmen. · Jokes about millers. · view the constellation · filed as X213

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FlemishDeMeyer FFC XXXVII 84 No. 27b.

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Filed under Jokes about millers. (Cf. P443.)

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Millers as thieves The honest miller. Baker cannot understand how a man who has been a miller can be a beggar. It is a wonder that the farmers are not beggars instead Monks get revenge on millers. Drunken millers force monks to dance. Millers are enticed to monastery and beaten

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