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# LXVIII. the Children in the Wood

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LXVIII. the Children in the Wood of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 15 sentences and 190 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/pg14241/59/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/2/) — \_--Percy, \_Reliques\_.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/3/) — The ballad form of the story has become such a nursery classic that I had not the heart to "prose" it.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/4/) — As Mr. Allingham remarks, it is the best of the ballads of the pedestrian order.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/5/) — \_Parallels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/6/) — \_--The second of R. Yarrington's \_Two Lamentable Tragedies\_, 1601, has the same plot as the ballad.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/7/) — Several chap-books have been made out of it, some of them enumerated by Halliwell's \_Popular Histories\_ (Percy Soc.)
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/8/) — No. 18.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/9/) — From one of these I am in the fortunate position of giving the names of the \_dramatis personæ\_ of this domestic tragedy.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/10/) — Androgus was the wicked uncle, Pisaurus his brother who married Eugenia, and their children in the wood were Cassander and little Kate.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/11/) — The ruffians were appropriately named Rawbones and Woudkill.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/12/) — According to a writer in \_3 Notes and Queries\_, ix., 144, the traditional burial-place of the children is pointed out in Norfolk.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/13/) — The ballad was known before Percy, as it is mentioned in the \_Spectator\_, Nos.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/14/) — 80 and 179.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/59/15/) — \_Remarks\_.--The only "fairy" touch--but what a touch!--the pall of leaves collected by the robins.

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