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decides to take a nap by the roadside. To know where to go when he wakes up, he points his boots in the direction of Warsaw. A passer-by turns the boots in the opposite direction, and when
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The key points of the plot resemble the story of a rabbi, who sets out in a wagon from Chelm to a nearby city, but while he was asleep, the wagon driver drives around for a while and then deposits the rabby back in Chelm... The early print of this story may be found in the 1887 book
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by an obscure writer Herts Bik. Only a single copy of the book is known, in the
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is a French-German-Israeli-Hungarian animated film loosely based on this and other Singer's stories.
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