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description: More English Fairy Tales, part 4, «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The horrid thing broke into a screeching laugh, and pointed its brown finger at Tom. "
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# More English Fairy Tales, part 4 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/101/) — Before the days of William the Conqueror there dwelt a man in the marsh of the Isle of Ely whose name was Thomas Hickathrift, a poor day labourer, but so stout that he could do two days' work in one.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/102/) — His one son he called by his own name, Thomas Hickathrift, and he put him to good learning, but the lad was none of the wisest, and indeed seemed to be somewhat soft, so he got no good at all from his teaching.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/103/) — Tom's father died, and his mother being tender of him, kept him as well as she could.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/104/) — The slothful fellow would do nothing but sit in the chimney-corner, and eat as much at a time as would serve four or five ordinary men.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/105/) — And so much did he grow that when but ten years old he was already eight feet high, and his hand like a shoulder of mutton.

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