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# LXX. a Pottle O' Brains

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LXX. a Pottle O' Brains of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 85 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/pg14241/61/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/61/2/) — \_--Contributed by Mrs. Balfour to \_Folk-Lore\_, II.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/61/3/) — \_Parallels.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/61/4/) — \_--The fool's wife is clearly related to the Clever Lass of "Gobborn Seer," where see Notes.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/61/5/) — \_Remarks.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/61/6/) — \_--The fool is obviously of the same family as he of the "Coat o' Clay" (No. lix.) if he is not actually identical with him.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/61/7/) — His adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/61/8/) — The Noodle family is strongly represented in English folk-tales, which would seem to confirm Carlyle's celebrated statistical remark.

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