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# XLII. Master of All Masters.

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XLII. Master of All Masters. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 165 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/pg7439/92/1/) — \_Source\_.--I have taken what suited me from a number of sources, which shows how wide-spread this quaint droll is in England: (i) In Mayhew, \_London Poor\_, iii.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/2/) — 391, told by a lad in a workhouse; (ii) several versions in 7 \_Notes and Queries\_, iii.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/3/) — 35, 87, 159, 398.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--Rev. W. Gregor gives a Scotch version under the title “The Clever Apprentice,” in \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, vii.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/5/) — 166.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/6/) — Mr. Hartland, in \_Notes and Queries\_, \_l.c.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/7/) — \_, 87, refers to Pitré's \_Fiabi sicil.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/8/) — \_, iii.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/9/) — 120, for a variant.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/10/) — \_Remarks\_.--According to Mr. Hartland, the story is designed as a satire on pedantry, and is as old in Italy as Straparola (sixteenth century).
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/11/) — In passionate Sicily a wife disgusted with her husband's pedantry sets the house on fire, and informs her husband of the fact in this unintelligible gibberish; he, not understanding his own lingo, falls a victim to the flames, and she marries the servant who had taken the message.

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