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# XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.

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XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 13 sentences and 200 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/pg7439/89/1/) — \_Source\_.--Henderson, \_l.c.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/2/) — \_, first edition, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/3/) — 327-9, by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--Mr. Baring-Gould gives another version from the East Riding, \_l.c.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/5/) — \_, 329, in which there are three brothers who go through the adventures.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/6/) — He also refers to European Variants, p. 311, which could now be largely supplemented from Cosquin, i. 53-4, ii.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/7/) — 66, 171.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/8/) — \_Remarks\_.--As an example of the sun-myth explanation of folk-tales I will quote the same authority (p. 314): “The Master, who gives the three precious gifts, is the All Father, the Supreme Spirit.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/9/) — The gold and jewel-dropping ass, is the spring cloud, hanging in the sky and shedding the bright productive vernal showers.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/10/) — The table which covers itself is the earth becoming covered with flowers and fruit at the bidding of the New Year.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/11/) — But there is a check; rain is withheld, the process of vegetation is stayed by some evil influence.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/12/) — Then comes the thunder-cloud, out of which leaps the bolt; the rains pour down, the earth receives them, and is covered with abundance--all that was lost is recovered.”
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/13/) — Mr. Baring-Gould, it is well-known, has since become a distinguished writer of fiction.

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