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# LVII. the Wee Bannock

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LVII. the Wee Bannock of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 14 sentences and 170 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 2 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/2/) — \_--Chambers's \_Popular Rhymes of Scotland\_.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/3/) — I have attempted an impossibility, I fear, in trying to anglicise, but the fun of the original tempted me. — checked by a teacher
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/4/) — There still remain several technical trade terms requiring elucidation.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/5/) — I owe the following to the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Todd Martin, of Belfast.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/6/) — \_Lawtrod\_ = lap board on which the tailor irons; \_tow cards\_, the comb with which tow is carded; the \_clove\_, a heavy wooden knife for breaking up the flax.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/7/) — \_Heckling\_ is combing it with a \_heckle\_ or wooden comb; \_binnings\_ are halters for cattle made of \_sprit\_ or rushes.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/8/) — \_Spurtle\_ = spoon; \_whins\_ = gorse.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/9/) — \_Parallels.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/10/) — \_--This is clearly a variant of \_Johnny-cake\_ = journey-cake, No. xxviii., where see Notes.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/11/) — \_Remarks.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/12/) — \_--But here the interest is with the pursuers rather than with the pursued.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/13/) — The subtle characterisation of the various occupations reaches a high level of artistic merit. — checked by a teacher
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/14/) — Mr. Barrie himself could scarcely have succeeded better in a very difficult task.

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