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# III. Field of Boliauns.

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III. Field of Boliauns. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 129 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/pg7885/37/1/) — \_Source\_.--T. Crofton Croker's \_Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland\_, ed.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/2/) — Wright, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/3/) — 135-9.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/4/) — In the original the gnome is a Cluricaune, but as a friend of Mr. Batten's has recently heard the tale told of a Lepracaun, I have adopted the better known title.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/5/) — \_Remarks\_.--\_Lepracaun\_ is from the Irish \_leith bhrogan\_, the one-shoemaker (\_cf\_. brogue), according to Dr. Hyde.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/6/) — He is generally seen (and to this day, too) working at a single shoe, \_cf.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/7/) — \_ Croker's story "Little Shoe," \_l.c.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/8/) — \_ pp.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/9/) — 142-4.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/10/) — According to a writer in the \_Revue Celtique\_, i. 256, the true etymology is \_luchor pan\_, "little man."
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/11/) — Dr. Joyce also gives the same etymology in \_Irish Names and Places\_, i. 183, where he mentions several places named after them.

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