“All freight lightens,” said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.

Tradizione tedesca · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

”Alle Frachten lichten,” sagte der Schiffer, da warf er seine Frau über Bord.

“All freight lightens,” said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.

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