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# VIII. the Sprightly Tailor.

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VIII. the Sprightly Tailor. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 9 sentences and 152 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/pg7885/42/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/42/2/) — \_--\_Notes and Queries\_ for December 21, 1861; to which it was communicated by "Cuthbert Bede," the author of \_Verdant Green\_, who collected it in Cantyre.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/42/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Miss Dempster gives the same story in her Sutherland Collection, No. vii.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/42/4/) — (referred to by Campbell in his Gaelic list, at end of vol. iv.); Mrs. John Faed, I am informed by a friend, knows the Gaelic version, as told by her nurse in her youth.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/42/5/) — Chambers' "Strange Visitor," \_Pop.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/42/6/) — Rhymes of Scotland\_, 64, of which I gave an Anglicised version in my \_English Fairy Tales\_, No. xxxii., is clearly a variant.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/42/7/) — \_Remarks\_.--The Macdonald of Saddell Castle was a very great man indeed.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/42/8/) — Once, when dining with the Lord-Lieutenant, an apology was made to him for placing him so far away from the head of the table. "
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/42/9/) — Where the Macdonald sits," was the proud response, "there is the head of the table."

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