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# XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.

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XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 7 sentences and 162 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/pg7439/67/1/) — \_Source\_.-Mr. F.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/2/) — Hindes Groome, \_In Gipsy Tents\_, p. 201 \_seq.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/3/) — \_ I have eliminated a superfluous Gipsy who makes her appearance towards the end of the tale \_à propos des boltes\_, but otherwise have left the tale unaltered as one of the few English folk-tales that have been taken down from the mouths of the peasantry: this applies also to i., ii., xi.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/4/) — \_Parallels\_.-There is a magic snuff-box with a friendly power in it in Kennedy's \_Fictions of the Irish Celts\_, p. 49.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/5/) — The choice between a small cake with a blessing, &c., is frequent (\_cf.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/6/) — \_ No. xxiii.), but the closest parallel to the whole story, including the mice, is afforded by a tale in Carnoy and Nicolaides' \_Traditions populaires de l'Asie Mineure\_, which is translated as the first tale in Mr. Lang's \_Blue Fairy Book\_.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/7/) — There is much in both that is similar to Aladdin, I beg his pardon, Allah-ed-din.

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