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# XXXV. the Fish and the Ring.

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XXXV. the Fish and the Ring. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 124 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/pg7439/85/1/) — \_Source\_.--Henderson, \_l.c.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/2/) — \_, p. 326, from a communication by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--“Jonah rings” have been put together by Mr. Clouston in his \_Popular Tales\_, i. 398, &c.: the most famous are those of Polycrates, of Solomon, and the Sanskrit drama of “Sakuntala,” the plot of which turns upon such a ring.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/4/) — “Letters to kill bearer” have been traced from Homer downwards by Prof.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/5/) — Köhler on Gonzenbach, ii.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/6/) — 220, and “the substituted letter” by the same authority in \_Occ. u. Or.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/7/) — \_, ii.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/8/) — 289.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/9/) — Mr. Baring-Gould, who was one of the pioneers of the study of folk-tales in this country, has given a large number of instances of “the pre-ordained marriage” in folk-tales in Henderson, \_l.c.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/85/10/) — \_

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