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# XLI. the Well of the World's End.

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XLI. the Well of the World's End. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 17 sentences and 204 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/pg7439/91/1/) — \_Source\_.--Leyden's edition of \_The Complaynt of Scotland\_, p. 234 \_seq.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/2/) — \_, with additional touches from Halliwell, 162-3, who makes up a slightly different version from the rhymes.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/3/) — The opening formula I have taken from Mayhew, \_London Labour\_, iii.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/4/) — 390, who gives it as the usual one when tramps tell folk-tales.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/5/) — I also added it to No. xvii.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/6/) — \_Parallels\_.--Sir W. Scott remembered a similar story; see Taylor's \_Gammer Grethel, ad fin\_.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/7/) — In Scotland it is Chambers's tale of \_The Paddo\_, p. 87; Leyden supposes it is referred to in the \_Complaynt\_, (c. 1548), as “The Wolf of the Warldis End.”
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/8/) — The well of this name occurs also in the Scotch version of the “Three Heads of the Well,” (No. xliii.).
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/9/) — Abroad it is the Grimms' first tale, while frogs who would a-wooing go are discussed by Prof.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/10/) — Köhler, \_Occ. u. Orient\_ ii.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/11/) — 330; by Prof.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/12/) — Child, i. 298; and by Messrs.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/13/) — Jones and Kropf, \_l.c.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/14/) — \_, p. 404.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/15/) — The sieve-bucket task is widespread from the Danaids of the Greeks to the leverets of \_Uncle Remus\_, who, curiously enough, use the same rhyme: “Fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay.”
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/16/) — \_Cf.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/17/) — \_, too, No. xxiii.

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