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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome, my boy; I am proud to see you. Dismount and put the horse in the stable, and come in and have some refreshments; I know you are hungry after all you have gone through in that castle. And tell me all you did, and all you saw there. Other kings' sons went by here to go to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see my two brothers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How did they look?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! they looked very well. I liked them much. They told me many things what to do." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us see what sort of apples he has got under his head." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come here to me; I will not do you any harm. It's better for you to come with me and have some refreshments; I know that you are hungry all this time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am not hungry; but I was very frightened when I saw you coming to me first, as ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jubal, Jubal, I can see my watch up in that tree." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I am sure, how lucky! exclaimed poor Jubal;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I'd rather go myself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you ever been at ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is saved, O King." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then bring him here immediately, or else I shall be done for." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! ha! ha! Jubal, did you ever hear such a thing in all your life, my brother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you call him your brother?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he has been better to me than my brothers." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How now, father Abbot? I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. This becomes not our royal dignity, and savours of treason in thee." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My liege, quoth the Abbot, bending low," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome home, Lord Abbot, quoth the shepherd;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sad news, sad news, my shepherd," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, cheer up, Sir Abbot, said the shepherd." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A fool may perhaps answe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now welcome, Sir Abbot, said King John;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am ready to answer your Majesty," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, question first--where is the centre of the round earth?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take me up, bone by bone, And put me beneath yon grey stone; When there is aught you want Tell it me, and that I'll grant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! I should like to go to church, too, but the three ugly sisters said:" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eh, lassie, if you had seen the bonny fine lady in church to-day, that the young prince fell in love with! Then she said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! I wish you would let me go with you to the church to-morrow," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hackèd Heels and Pinchèd Toes Behind the young prince rides, But Pretty Feet and Little Feet Behind the cauldron bides." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's that the birdie sings?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nasty, lying thing, said the step-sister,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's Tommy Tildrum?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, what's the matter? said his wife," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I've had such an adventure. I was digging away at old Mr. Fordyce's grave when I suppose I must have dropped asleep, and only w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where come ye from, Tamlane, Tamlane? Burd Janet said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From Elfland I come, said young Tamlane." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Queen of Elfland has made me her knight." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's won, he's won amongst us all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had I but had the wit yestreen That I have got to-day, I'd paid the Fiend seven times his teind Ere you'd been won away." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goode'en to ye, says she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm seeking the stars in the sky to play with. Have you seen any?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, my bonnie lassie, said the mill-dam." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They shine...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now get you down, said the horse;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've brought ye to the end of the land, and that's as much as Four Feet can do. I must away home to my own folk." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, said the lassie," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said the Fish," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mistress Mousie, are you within?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, kind Sir, I am within, Softly do I sit and spin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Madam, I am come to woo, Marriage I must have of you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marriag...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do ye any music lack?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Squeak, quoth she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm out of it all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you bring that bull-calf into this house, I'll kill it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You and your bull-calf had better go away and seek your fortune." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, says the bull-calf," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll squeeze your heart like the flint-stone. So the monkey cocked his eye as much as to say:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you can squeeze a flint-stone to make the juice come out of it, you can squeeze me. But he didn't say anything, for a monkey's cunning, but...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My time has come for the dragon to destroy me; go away, you can do no good. But he said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No! I can master it, and I won't go" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've done all I can, I must leave you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How came you to be saved?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, says she;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know something of that boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see you've got an eye on that boy. If it has to be him it must be him. But all the others were fit to kill him, and cried out:" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold still, my Coo, my hinny, Hold still, my hinny, my Coo, And ye shall have for your dinner What but a milk white doo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hout!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hold still, my Coo, my dearie, And fill my bucket wi' milk, And ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What makes you so long lipped?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spinning thread, my hinnie, said the old woman, pleased with her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wet my fingers with my lips, as I draw the thread from the distaff." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurry up, Scantlie Mab, for I've promised the yarn and Habetrot always keeps her promise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bundle up the yarn, it is time the young lassie should give it to her mother. Delighted to hear this, the girl got up and returned homewards. Habetrot soon overtook her, and placed the yarn in her hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, what can I do for ye in retu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My daughter's spun seven, seven, seven, My daughter's eaten seven, seven, seven, And all before daylight." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bring your bonny bridegroom to my cell, said she to the young bride soon after her marriage;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cheerless is the evening grey When Causleen hath died away, But ever bright and ever fair Are they who breathe this evening air, And lean upon the self-bored stone Unseen by all but me alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Unseen by all but we alone." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, ho! said the fox," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love you well for your master's sake, And long to be picking your bones, e-ho!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, ho! said the fox," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Madam Grey Goose, by your leave I'll take you away without reprieve, And carry you back ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're in luck, here's a fine fat duck With his legs all dangling down-o!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me never see her face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let her marry the first that comes for her. And when this was known, who should be first but a nasty rough old man. So she didn't know what to do, and went to the henwife and asked her advice. The henwife said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pray tell me, fair maid, where you live." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kind sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of the 'Basin of Water' I dwell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how I should like to go! Whereupon the cook screamed out in a rag...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Basin of Water," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kind sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of the 'Broken Ladle' I dwell." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Basin of Water, or of the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Broken Ladle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kind sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of the 'Broken Skimmer' I dwell;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only see how beggars' brats take to one another." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pray, sir, had you not once a young daughter whom you would never see or own?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is true; I am a hardened sinner. But I would give all my worldly goods if I could but see her once before I die." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sheep's head and pluck! Sheep's head and pluck!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Liver and lights and gall and all! Liver and lights and gall and all!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Liver and lights and gall and all! Liver and lights and gall and all!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pray God send no more! Pray God send no more!" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At last, quoth he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What ails thee, my son? said a voice by his side," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, truly, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I have caught the devil himself. Look you and see if you know him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bring all your milk hither," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thy sin is pardoned, said his father;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would give my life," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mayhap thou wilt do so, said she." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The vow! the vow!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marry, said he that was going to Nottingham," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to buy sheep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Buy sheep? said the other," }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, fools! will you ever learn wisdom? Help me, and lay my sack upon my shoulders." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, neighbours, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Marry, said they," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, by my faith, sai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who should bring them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marry, themselves, said the fellow;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A vengeance on them all. I did fear, to see them run so fast, that they would run beyond the market. I am now fully persuaded that t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have many white herrings," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have many sprats," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have many red herrings," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have much salt fish. Let all go into the pond or pool, and we shall fare...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a troop of fair ladies we've got here!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said the princess," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you? said Jack," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How will you get it out again?" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, shepherd, said the lady," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have caught you napping!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Noa, sweet ally, I was busy a-feeshing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A fishing, said the princess in the utmost astonishm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Once upon a time and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time nor in your time nor in any one else's time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, there was once a ---- . A Scotch formula reported by Mrs. Balfour runs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Once on a time when a' muckle folk were wee and a' lees were true, while Mr. Lang gives us" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There was a king and a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "= Devonian for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack Hannaford (No. viii.). Halliwell's story of the miser who kept his money" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lazy Jack (No. xxvii), the European variants of which are given by M. Cosquin, _Contes de Lorraine_, i., 241. Jan's satisfaction with his wife's blunders is also European (Cosquin, _l.c._, i., 157). On minding the door and dispersing robbers by its aid see" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Strange Visitor (No. xxxii.). The latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English children," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mary Brown," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prisoner's base." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me A'an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blinded Giant (No. lxi.), or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Conall Yellowclaw (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. v.). The fact of Continental parallels disposes of the possibility of its being a merely local legend. The fairies might appear to be in a somewhat novel guise he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Red Bull o' Norroway. Kennedy, _Legendary Fictions_, p. 87, gives a variant with the title" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Brown Bear of Norway. Mr. Stewart gave a Leitrim version, in which" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Norroway becomes" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tiddy Mun, the hero of another of Mrs. Balfour's legends (_l.c._, p. 151) was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Battle of the Birds" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Happy Borz'l, in _Suffolk Notes and Queries_, while a similar jingle of inconsequent absurdities, commencing" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So he died, and she unluckily married the barber, and a great bear coming up the street popped his head into the window, saying...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing in the shape of incident has been omitted, and there has been no rewriting beyond a phrase here and there rendered necessary by the process of abridgment. But I have in one case altered the sequence of events putting the fig...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kow must not be confounded with the more prosaic animal with a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "C." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He would present himself to some old dame gathering sticks, in the form of a truss of straw, which she would be sure to take ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tattercoats in her exhaustive collection of parallels of _Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society Publications, 1892), No. 274 from the MS. which I had lent her. Miss Cox rightly classes it as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeterminate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Johnny Glaik" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coat o' Clay." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bones together" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Conall Yellowclaw." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars in _Folk-Lore_, ii., somewhat abridged and the dialect removed. The story was derived from a little girl named Bratton, who declared she had heard it from her" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look me" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gobborn Seer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Coat o' Clay" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prosed" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rushen Coatie, to differentiate it from any of the Scotch variants, and for the purposes of a folk-lore experiment. If this book becomes generally used among English-speaking peoples, it may possibly re-introduce this and other tales among the folk. We should be able to trace th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "English versions there is practical unanimity in the concluding portions of the tale. _Magic dresses--Meeting-place (Church)--Flight--Lost Shoe--Shoe Marriage-test--Mutilated foot--False Bride--_Bird witness--Happy Marriage_, follow one another with exemplary regularity in all f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Youngest-best formula which occurs in Cinderella, and on which Mr. Lang laid much stress in his treatment of the subject in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perrault as a survival of the old tenure of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Molly Dixon ; (2) _Choice Notes--Folk-Lore_, p. 73," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Colman Grey ; (3) _Folk-Lore Journal_, ii., 22," }, { "from": "human", "value": "King o' the Cats ; (4) _Folk-Lore--England_ (Gibbings)," }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Edward's Questing" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "While the dog was running near the mule, the mule kicked him and broke his own halter and ran through the house, scattering the fire with his hoofs, and burning down your house with your wife." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Marriage of the Frog and the Mouse, from T. Ravenscroft's _Melismata_, 1611. The nursery rhyme of the frog who would a-wooing go is clearly a variant of this, and has thus a sure pedigree of three hundred years; _cf._" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frog husband i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wiggle-Waggle for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Slipper-Slopper." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ones which approximate to that type. Of these eighty-six, five exist in the British Isles, two chap-books given in Halliwell and in Dixon's _Songs of English Peasantry_, two by Campbell, Nos. xiv. and xiv_a_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The King who Wished to Marr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of original to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One cheese after another," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hare postman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not counting self," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drowning eels." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not counting self is in the _...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Love Dance of the Catamounts. 42" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's you, Oscar, that I want, observes Miss Bark." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I concloodes, upon sober second thought, to accept your offer of marriage. 90 A couple of Enright's riders c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which you'll excoose me, and the old cattleman replaced his glass upon the table with a decisive click," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LOVE DANCE OF THE CATAMOUNTS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "IT'S YOU, OSCAR, THAT I WANT, OBSERVES MISS BARK." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I CONCLOODES, UPON SOBER SECOND THOUGHT, TO ACCEPT YOUR OFFER OF MARRIAGE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's kept a secret, at Peet's su'gestion, him bein' apoplectic that a-way. The stock is bought by public subscription of the camp, an' when the Freelinghuysen household is out of sight an' hearin' we invites Red Dog over in a body an' onbelts in a mod'rate orgy. The sign, 'Votes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A woman, a spaniel an' a walnut tree, The more you beat 'em the better they be." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By nacher I'm a patriot, cradle born and cradle bred; my Americanism, second to none except that of wolves an' rattlesnakes an' Injuns an' sim'lar cattle, c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which I certainly do get a heap disgusted at times with the wild beast called man. With all his bluffs about bein' so mighty sagacious, I can sit yere an' see that, speakin' mental, he ain't better than an even break with turkey gobblers. Even what he calls his science turns fin...