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# XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender.

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XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 13 sentences and 121 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/pg7128/52/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/2/) — \_--Steel-Temple, \_Wideawake Stories\_, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/3/) — 215-8.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/4/) — \_Parallels\_ enumerated in my \_Æsop\_, Av. xvii.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/5/) — See also Jacques de Vitry, \_Exempla\_, ed.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/6/) — Crane, No. 196 (see notes, p. 212), and Bozon, \_Contes moralisés\_, No. 112.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/7/) — It occurs in Avian, ed.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/8/) — Ellis, No. 22.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/9/) — Mr. Kipling has a very similar tale in his \_Life's Handicap\_.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/10/) — \_Remarks.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/11/) — \_--Here we have collected in modern India what one cannot help thinking is the Indian original of a fable of Avian.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/12/) — The preceding number showed one of his fables existing among the Jatakas, probably before the Christian era.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/52/13/) — This makes it likely that we shall find an earlier Indian original of the fable of the Avaricious and Envious, perhaps among the Jatakas still untranslated.

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