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# XXX. Mr. Miacca.

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XXX. Mr. Miacca. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 202 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/pg7439/80/1/) — \_Source\_.--From memory of Mrs. B. Abrahams, who heard it from her mother some \_x\_ years ago (more than 40).
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/80/2/) — I have transposed the two incidents, as in her version Tommy Grimes was a clever carver and carried about with him a carven leg.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/80/3/) — This seemed to me to exceed the limits of \_vraisemblance\_ even for a folk-tale.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/80/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--Getting out of an ogre's clutches by playing on the simplicity of his wife, occurs in “Molly Whuppie” (No. xxii.), and its similars.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/80/5/) — In the Grimms' “Hansel and Grethel,” Hansel pokes out a stick instead of his finger that the witch may not think him fat enough for the table.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/80/6/) — \_Remarks\_.--Mr. Miacca seems to have played the double \_rôle\_ of a domestic Providence.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/80/7/) — He not alone punished bad boys, as here, but also rewarded the good, by leaving them gifts on appropriate occasions like Santa Claus or Father Christmas, who, as is well known, only leave things for good children.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/80/8/) — Mrs. Abrahams remembers one occasion well when she nearly caught sight of Mr. Miacca, just after he had left her a gift; she saw his shadow in the shape of a bright light passing down the garden.

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