Note 35 — Chapter XII · WÄLSCH-TIROL. VAL SUGANA.—GIUDICARIA.—FOLKLORE.
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There is a palace with twelve rooms; each room has thirty beams, and two are ever running after each other through them without ever catching each other?—Answer. The palace is the year, the rooms the months, the beams the days, and day and night are always following each other without overlapping.