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description: The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A mile further on they came to a wide common, with short, springy turf, where horses of all colours, with skins of satin, were kicking up their 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, part 14 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/101/) — The little girl did not like being left alone in the hut, and cried bitterly; but her brother told her that there was no use sitting down quietly to starve, and that whether he found any game or not he would certainly be back before the following night.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/102/) — Then he cut himself some arrows, each from a different tree, and winged with the feathers of four different birds.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/103/) — He then made himself a bow, very light and strong, and got down his snow-shoes.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/104/) — All this took some time, and he could not start that day, but early next morning he called his little dog Redmouth, whom he kept in a box, and set out.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/105/) — After he had followed the trail for a great distance he grew very tired, and sat upon the branch of a tree to rest.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/106/) — But Redmouth barked so furiously that the boy thought that perhaps his parents might have been killed under its branches, and stepping back, shot one of his arrows at the root of the tree.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/107/) — Whereupon a noise like thunder shook it from top to bottom, fire broke out, and in a few minutes a little heap of ashes lay in the place where it had stood.

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