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# XXVIII. Johnny-cake.

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XXVIII. Johnny-cake. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 6 sentences and 95 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/pg7439/78/1/) — \_Source\_.--\_American Journal of Folk-Lore\_, ii.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/78/2/) — 60.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/78/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Another variant is given in the same \_Journal\_, p. 277, where reference is also made to a version “The Gingerbread Boy,” in \_St. Nicholas\_, May 1875.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/78/4/) — Chambers gives two versions of the same story, under the title “The Wee Bunnock,” the first of which is one of the most dramatic and humorous of folk-tales.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/78/5/) — Unfortunately, the Scotticisms are so frequent as to render the droll practically untranslatable.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/78/6/) — “The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow” in \_Uncle Remus\_ is similar to that of Johnny-Cake.

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