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# LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham

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LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 14 sentences and 213 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/pg14241/79/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/2/) — \_--The chap-book contained in Mr. Hazlitt's \_Shaksperian Jest Book\_, vol. iii.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/3/) — I have selected the incidents and modernised the spelling; otherwise the droll remains as it was told in Elizabethan times.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/5/) — \_--Mr. Clouston's \_Book of Noodles\_ is little else than a series of parallels to our droll.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/6/) — See my List of Incidents under the titles, "One cheese after another," "Hare postman," "Not counting self," "Drowning eels."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/7/) — In most cases Mr. Clouston quotes Eastern analogies.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/8/) — \_Remarks.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/9/) — \_--All countries have their special crop of fools, Boeotians among the Greeks, the people of Hums among the Persians (how appropriate!), the Schildburgers in Germany, and so on.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/10/) — Gotham is the English representative, and as witticisms call to mind well-known wits, so Gotham has had heaped on its head all the stupidities of the Indo-European world.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/11/) — For there can be little doubt that these drolls have spread from East to West.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/12/) — This "Not counting self" is in the \_Gooroo Paramastan\_, the cheeses "one after another" in M. Rivière's collection of Kabyle tales, and so on.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/13/) — It is indeed curious how little originality there is among mankind in the matter of stupidity.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/79/14/) — Even such an inventive genius as the late Mr. Sothern had considerable difficulty in inventing a new "sell."

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