XLV. Hereafterthis XLV. Hereafterthis of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 15 sentences and 206 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--Sent me anonymously soon after the appearance of _English Fairy Tales_. 3 From a gloss in the MS. "vitty" = Devonian for "decent," I conclude the tale is current in Devon. 4 I should be obliged if the sender would communicate with me. 5 _Parallels. 6 _--The latter part has a certain similarity with "Jack Hannaford" (No. viii.). 7 Halliwell's story of the miser who kept his money "for luck" (p. 153) is of the same type. 8 Halliwell remarks that the tale throws light on a passage in Ben Jonson: 9 Say we are robbed, If any come to borrow a spoon or so I will not have Good Fortune or God's Blessing Let in, while I am busy. 10 The earlier part of the tale has resemblance with "Lazy Jack" (No. xxvii), the European variants of which are given by M. Cosquin, _Contes de Lorraine_, i., 241. 11 Jan's satisfaction with his wife's blunders is also European (Cosquin, _l.c. 12 _, i., 157). 13 On minding the door and dispersing robbers by its aid see "Mr. Vinegar" (No. vi.). 14 _Remarks. 15 _--"Hereafterthis" is thus a _mélange_ of droll incidents, yet has characteristic folkish touches ("can you milk-y, bake-y," "when I lived home") which give it much vivacity. ← previous XLIV. the Pied Pipernext → XLVI. the Golden Ball↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/36/