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# XI. Cap O' Rushes.

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XI. Cap O' Rushes. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 7 sentences and 130 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/pg7439/61/1/) — \_Source\_.--Discovered by Mr. E. Clodd, in “Suffolk Notes and Queries” of the \_Ipswich Journal\_, published by Mr. Lang in \_Longinan's Magazine\_, vol. xiii, also in \_Folk-Lore\_, Sept. 1890.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--The beginning recalls “King Lear.”
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/3/) — For “loving like salt,” see the parallels collected by Cosquin, i. 288.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/4/) — The whole story is a version of the numerous class of Cinderella stories, the particular variety being the Catskin sub-species analogous to Perrault's \_Peau d'Ane\_.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/5/) — “Catskin” was told by Mr. Burchell to the young Primroses in “The Vicar of Wakefield,'” and has been elaborately studied by the late H. C. Coote, in \_Folk-Lore Record\_, iii.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/6/) — 1-25.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/7/) — It is only now extant in ballad form, of which “Cap o' Rushes” may be regarded as a prose version.

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