Beschrijving
The wooer makes boasts to the girl and the servant always doubles the master's boast. Finally the master says, »I have poor eyesight.» - The servant, »You don't see at all.» (Or the master coughs and apologizes; the servant says that he coughs all night.) [J2464].
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 221
*Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. IX 88 No. 46. - Literary Treatment: Scala Celi No. 688.