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# LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky

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LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 82 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/pg14241/69/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/69/2/) — \_--Mrs. Balfour's old nurse, now in New Zealand.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/69/3/) — The original is in broad Scots, which I have anglicised.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/69/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/69/5/) — \_--The tradition is widespread that at the foot of the rainbow treasure is to be found; \_cf.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/69/6/) — \_ Mr. John Payne's "Sir Edward's Questing" in his \_Songs of Life and Death\_.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/69/7/) — \_Remarks.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/69/8/) — \_--The "sell" at the end is scarcely after the manner of the folk, and various touches throughout indicate a transmission through minds tainted with culture and introspection.

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