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# LI. Sir Gammer Vans

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LI. Sir Gammer Vans of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 14 sentences and 166 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/pg14241/42/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/2/) — \_--Halliwell's \_Nursery Rhymes and Tales.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/3/) — \_
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/5/) — \_--There is a Yorkshire Lying Tale in Henderson's \_Folk-Lore\_, first edition, p. 337, a Suffolk one, "Happy Borz'l," in \_Suffolk Notes and Queries\_, while a similar jingle of inconsequent absurdities, commencing "So he died, and she unluckily married the barber, and a great bear coming up the street popped his head into the window, saying, 'Do you sell any soap'?" is said to have been invented by Charles James Fox to test Sheridan's memory, who repeated it after one hearing.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/6/) — (Others attribute it to Foote.)
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/7/) — Similar \_Lugenmärchen\_ are given by the Grimms, and discussed by them in their Notes, Mrs. Hunt's translation, ii., pp.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/8/) — 424, 435, 442, 450, 452, \_cf.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/9/) — \_ Crane, \_Ital.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/10/) — Pop.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/11/) — Tales\_, p. 263.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/12/) — \_Remarks.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/13/) — \_--The reference to venison warrants, and bows and arrows seems to argue considerable antiquity for this piece of nonsense.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/14/) — The honorific prefix "Sir" may in that case refer to clerkly qualities rather than to knighthood.

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