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title: The Biter Bit, part 1 — The Green Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Biter Bit, part 1, «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Once upon a time there lived a man called Simon, who was very rich, but at the same time as stingy and miserly as he could be.
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# The Biter Bit, part 1 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/101/) — ‘Yes, certainly, I know he would,’ answered Simon, ‘if you were tied up in this sack instead of me.’
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/102/) — Then getting out of the sack, he tied the confiding shepherd up in it instead, and at his request fastened it securely and drove the sheep on himself.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/103/) — An hour had scarcely passed when the three rogues returned to the place where they had left Simon in the sack, and without opening it, one of them seized it and threw it into the river.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/104/) — And so the poor shepherd was drowned instead of Mr. Simon!
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/105/) — The three rogues, having wreaked their vengeance, set out, for home. — checked by a teacher
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/106/) — On their way they noticed a flock of sheep grazing not far from the road.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/107/) — They longed to steal a few of the lambs, and approached the flock, and were more than startled to recognise Mr. Simon, whom they had drowned in the river, as the shepherd who was looking after the sheep.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/108/) — They asked him how he had managed to get out of the river, to which he replied:

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