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# LXXIV. King O' Cats

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LXXIV. King O' Cats of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 14 sentences and 148 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/pg14241/67/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/2/) — \_--I have taken a point here and a point there from the various English versions mentioned in the next section.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/3/) — I have expanded the names, so as to make a jingle from the Dildrum and Doldrum of Hartland.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/5/) — \_--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in England: (1) Halliwell, \_Pop.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/6/) — Rhymes\_, 167, "Molly Dixon"; (2) \_Choice Notes--Folk-Lore\_, p. 73, "Colman Grey"; (3) \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, ii., 22, "King o' the Cats"; (4) \_Folk-Lore--England\_ (Gibbings), "Johnny Reed's Cat"; (5) Hartland and Wilkinson, \_Lancashire Legends\_, p. 13, "Dildrum Doldrum."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/7/) — Sir F.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/8/) — Palgrave gives a Danish parallel; \_cf.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/9/) — \_ Halliwell, \_l.c.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/10/) — \_
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/11/) — \_Remarks.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/12/) — \_--An interesting example of the spread and development of a simple anecdote throughout England.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/13/) — Here again we can scarcely imagine more than a single origin for the tale which is, in its way, as weird and fantastic as E.A.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/14/) — Poe.

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