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# LXXVII. News!

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LXXVII. News! of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 12 sentences and 150 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/pg14241/70/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/2/) — \_--Bell's \_Speaker\_.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/3/) — \_Parallels.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/4/) — \_--Jacques de Vitry, \_Exempla\_, ed.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/5/) — Crane, No. ccv., a servant being asked the news by his master returned from a pilgrimage to Compostella, says the dog is lame, and goes on to explain: "While the dog was running near the mule, the mule kicked him and broke his own halter and ran through the house, scattering the fire with his hoofs, and burning down your house with your wife."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/6/) — It occurs even earlier in Alfonsi's \_Disciplina Clericalis\_, No. xxx., at beginning of the twelfth century, among the \_Fabliaux\_, and in Bebel, \_Werke\_, iii., 71, whence probably it was reintroduced into England.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/7/) — See Prof.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/8/) — Crane's note \_ad loc.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/9/) — \_
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/10/) — \_Remarks.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/11/) — \_--Almost all Alfonsi's \_exempla\_ are from the East.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/70/12/) — It is characteristic that the German version finishes up with a loss of honour, the English climax being loss of fortune.

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