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Lemon Grass on
Chicken Claws on
Pine Tree Nuts make for a
VEGETABLE, DISH, COURSE OF A MEAL

Cauliflower
Aubergines
Ingest
VEGETABLE DISH

Chew
And
Ingest
VEGETABLE DISH


Clear
Undrinkable
VINEGAR

A jug of wine fromt the former times is vinegar
A jug of win put under two clumps of earth for 20 years turns to vinegar


CAnIne
AnImal
Intelligence
GUESS

The Master holds a strip of Meat in his hand to make the dog GUESS what his command is.


Clearly
Unthinkable
Original
ERROR

Completely
Unthinkable
Original
ERROR

Metal which has been under twenty clods of earth for twenty revolutions of the sun i.e. twenty years will rust out and is WRONG ERROR


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former times the past

Two strips of meat which are hung up in the sun to dry for a long time as representation of FORMER TIMES THE PAST

History
Some
Idea of
FORMER TIMES THE PAST