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# XXXI. Dick Whittington.

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XXXI. Dick Whittington. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 159 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/pg7439/81/1/) — \_Source\_.--I have cobbled this up out of three chap-book versions; (1) that contained in Mr. Hartland's \_English Folk-tales\_; (2) that edited by Mr. H. B. Wheatley for the Villon Society; (3) that appended to Messrs.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/2/) — Besant and Rice's monograph.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Whittington's cat has made the fortune of his master in all parts of the Old World, as Mr. W. A. Clouston, among others, has shown, \_Popular Tales and Fictions\_, ii.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/4/) — 65-78 (\_cf.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/5/) — \_ Köhler on Gonzenbach, ii.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/6/) — 251).
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/7/) — \_Remarks\_.--If Bow Bells had pealed in the exact and accurate nineteenth century, they doubtless would have chimed
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/8/) — Turn again, Whittington, Thrice and a half Lord Mayor of London.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/9/) — For besides his three mayoralties of 1397, 1406, and 1419, he served as Lord Mayor in place of Adam Bamme, deceased, in the latter half of the mayoralty of 1396.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/81/10/) — It will be noticed that the chap-book puts the introduction of potatoes rather far back.

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