Beschrijving
Threshing Documents. A farmer has received a legal statement from a lawyer. When checking the document, for which he has to pay by the page, he realizes that the lawyer has written the paper with wide spaces between the lines (and that the last part of the page is blank). The lawyer explains that this is how documents have to be written.
The farmer cannot pay the bill and offers to repay the lawyer with his own work. He takes revenge by threshing the lawyer’s grain (plowing his field), leaving wide spaces unthreshed between the rows. He explains that this is called ‘document-style threshing’.
The farmer cannot pay the bill and offers to repay the lawyer with his own work. He takes revenge by threshing the lawyer’s grain (plowing his field), leaving wide spaces unthreshed between the rows. He explains that this is called ‘document-style threshing’.
Motief
X319.1
Commentaar
Documented in the 17th century.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1860E
Subgenre
mop