Joseph Jacobs quotes

But the Harp called out quite loud: Master! Master! (Joseph Jacobs)
Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? View quote
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There once was upon a time a poor widow who had an only son Jack, and a cow called Milky-White. View quote
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Little pig, little pig, let me come in. To which the pig answered: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin. The wolf answered to that, Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the house down. View quote
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Turn again Whittington, Thrice Mayor of London. View quote
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Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive or be he dead I'll have his bones to grind my bread. View quote
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For out of every hole the rats came tumbling. View quote
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Fee, fi, fo, fum I smell the blood of some earthly one. View quote
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Kind sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of Basin of Water I dwell. View quote
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Well, he [the wolf] huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he puffed and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the house down. View quote
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When the pig saw what he [the wolf] was about, he hung on a pot full of water, and made a blazing fire...and in fell the wolf... (Joseph Jacobs)
...he must need wish in a hurry; and wish he did, that the black pudding may come off his nose. View quote
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The sky is a-going to fall, I must go and tell the King. View quote
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My man is an ogre and there is nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast. View quote
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Out the Old Woman jumped (of the window). And whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there...or taken up by a constable to the House of Correction for the vagrant she was I cannot tell. But the Three Bears never saw anything more of her. View quote
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You don't know what these beans are, said the man [that Jack meets]. If you plant them overnight, by morning they grew right up to the sky. View quote
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Woe worth you, Molly Whuppie! never you come again Twice yet, carle, quoth she, I'll come to Spain. View quote
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