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# XXIV. Golden Arm.

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XXIV. Golden Arm. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 12 sentences and 192 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/pg7439/74/1/) — \_Source\_.--Henderson, \_l.c.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/2/) — \_, p. 338, collected by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, in Devonshire.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/3/) — Mr. Burne-Jones remembers hearing it in his youth in Warwickshire.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--The first fragment at the end of Grimm (ii.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/5/) — 467, of Mrs. Hunt's translation), tells of an innkeeper's wife who had used the liver of a man hanging on the gallows, whose ghost comes to her and tells her what has become of his hair, and his eyes, and the dialogue concludes
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/6/) — “SHE: Where is thy liver?
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/7/) — IT: Thou hast devoured it!”
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/8/) — For similar “surprise packets” see Cosquin, ii.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/9/) — 77.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/10/) — \_Remarks\_.--It is doubtful how far such gruesome topics should be introduced into a book for children, but as a matter of fact the \_katharsis\_ of pity and terror among the little ones is as effective as among the spectators of a drama, and they take the same kind of pleasant thrill from such stories.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/11/) — They know it is all make-believe just as much as the spectators of a tragedy.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/12/) — Every one who has enjoyed the blessing of a romantic imagination has been trained up on such tales of wonder.

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