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# XLV. Hereafterthis

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XLV. Hereafterthis of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 15 sentences and 206 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/2/) — \_--Sent me anonymously soon after the appearance of \_English Fairy Tales\_.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/3/) — From a gloss in the MS. "vitty" = Devonian for "decent," I conclude the tale is current in Devon.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/4/) — I should be obliged if the sender would communicate with me.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/5/) — \_Parallels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/6/) — \_--The latter part has a certain similarity with "Jack Hannaford" (No. viii.).
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/7/) — Halliwell's story of the miser who kept his money "for luck" (p. 153) is of the same type.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/8/) — Halliwell remarks that the tale throws light on a passage in Ben Jonson:
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/9/) — Say we are robbed, If any come to borrow a spoon or so I will not have Good Fortune or God's Blessing Let in, while I am busy.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/10/) — The earlier part of the tale has resemblance with "Lazy Jack" (No. xxvii), the European variants of which are given by M. Cosquin, \_Contes de Lorraine\_, i., 241.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/11/) — Jan's satisfaction with his wife's blunders is also European (Cosquin, \_l.c.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/12/) — \_, i., 157).
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/13/) — On minding the door and dispersing robbers by its aid see "Mr. Vinegar" (No. vi.).
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/14/) — \_Remarks.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/15/) — \_--"Hereafterthis" is thus a \_mélange\_ of droll incidents, yet has characteristic folkish touches ("can you milk-y, bake-y," "when I lived home") which give it much vivacity.

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