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# LVIII. Johnny Gloke

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LVIII. Johnny Gloke of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 118 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/pg14241/49/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/2/) — \_--Contributed by Mr. W. Gregor to \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, vii.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/3/) — I have rechristened "Johnny Glaik" for the sake of the rhyme, and anglicised the few Scotticisms.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/5/) — \_--This is clearly \_The Valiant Tailor\_ of the Grimms: "\_x\_ at a blow" has been bibliographised.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/6/) — (See my List of Incidents in Trans.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/7/) — Folk-Lore Congress, 1892, \_sub voce.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/8/) — \_)
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/9/) — \_Remarks.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/10/) — \_--How \_The Valiant Tailor\_ got to Aberdeen one cannot tell, though the resemblance is close enough to suggest a direct "lifting" from some English version of Grimm's \_Goblins\_.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/49/11/) — At the same time it must be remembered that \_Jack the Giant Killer\_ (see Notes on No. xix.) contains some of the incidents of \_The Valiant Tailor\_.

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