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# LIX. Coat O Clay

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LIX. Coat O Clay of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 5 sentences and 54 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/pg14241/50/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/50/2/) — \_--Contributed by Mrs. Balfour originally to \_Longman's Magazine\_, and thence to \_Folk-Lore\_, Sept., 1890.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/50/3/) — \_Remarks.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/50/4/) — \_--A rustic apologue, which is scarcely more than a prolonged pun on "Coat o' Clay."
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/50/5/) — Mrs. Balfour's telling redeems it from the usual dulness of folk-tales with a moral or a double meaning.

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