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# LXXVIII. Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton

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LXXVIII. Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 6 sentences and 89 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/pg14241/71/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/71/2/) — \_--Kirkpatrick Sharpe's \_Ballad Book\_, 1824, slightly anglicised.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/71/3/) — \_Parallels.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/71/4/) — \_--Mr. Bullen, in his \_Lyrics from Elizabethan Song Books\_, p. 202, gives a version, "The Marriage of the Frog and the Mouse," from T. Ravenscroft's \_Melismata\_, 1611.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/71/5/) — The nursery rhyme of the frog who would a-wooing go is clearly a variant of this, and has thus a sure pedigree of three hundred years; \_cf.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/71/6/) — \_ "Frog husband" in my List of Incidents, or notes to "The Well of the World's End" (No. xli.).

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