--- title: The Brown Fairy Book, part 16 — The Brown Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Then Thakane clasped the baby tightly in her arms, and cried: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / The Brown Fairy Book, part 16 # The Brown Fairy Book, part 16 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/101/) — “What a useless creature you are!” cried he. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/102/) — “Do you expect me to go about in such a coat as that? - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/103/) — Why it bulges all down the back, as if I had a hump, and it is so tight across the chest that I expect it to burst every time I breathe. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/104/) — I knew you were stupid, but I did not think you were as stupid as that.” - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/105/) — And giving the poor frog a blow on her head, which knocked her straight into the water, he walked off in a rage to his younger sister the mouse. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/106/) — “I tore my coat this morning,” he began, when he had found her sitting at the door of her house eating an apple. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/107/) — “It was all in little bits, and I took it to our sister the frog to ask her to sew it for me. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/108/) — But just look at the way she has done it! - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/109/) — You will have to take it to pieces and fit them together properly, and I hope I shall not have to complain again.” - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/110/) — For as the wolverine was older than the mouse, he was accustomed to speak to her in this manner. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/111/) — However, the mouse was used to it and only answered: “I think you had better stay here till it is done, and if there is any alteration needed I can make it.” - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/112/) — So the wolverine sat down on a heap of dry ferns, and picking up the apple, he finished it without even asking the mouse’s leave. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/113/) — At last the coat was ready, and the wolverine put it on. — checked by a teacher - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/114/) — “Yes, it fits very well,” said he, “and you have sewn it very neatly. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/115/) — When I pass this way again I will bring you a handful of corn, as a reward”; and he ran off as smart as ever, leaving the mouse quite grateful behind him. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/116/) — He wandered about for many days, till he reached a place where food was very scarce, and for a whole week he went without any. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/117/) — He was growing desperate, when he suddenly came upon a bear that was lying asleep. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/118/) — “Ah! here is food at last!” thought he; but how was he to kill the bear, who was so much bigger than himself? - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/119/) — It was no use to try force, he must invent some cunning plan which would get her into his power. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/120/) — At last, after thinking hard, he decided upon something, and going up to the bear, he exclaimed: “Is that you, my sister?” [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/) **2** - ← previous: [The Brown Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/) - next →: [The Brown Fairy Book, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/17/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/)