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Reading Notes: English Fairy Tales Part B

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A boy named jack became increasingly unhappy with his home life, so he ran away and sought to live a full life. He ran and ran until he bumped into an old woman gathering sticks. This old lady took him in as a servant and vowed to pay him well. He served her for twelve months and a day. She paid him with a donkey that spit up currency every once in awhile. He then rode to a inn where he ordered everything and slept. The inn keeper noticed the donkeys exquisite feature and swapped his regular donkey for the money donkey. Jack rode to his fathers house without notice that the donkey wasn't the same. He got home and wished to marry the daughter of a widow down the street. He asked his father for leave to do so but he said no because the son didn't have money to keep her. He then pulled on the donkey's ears for money but none came out. The father then beat the son out of the house with a hay fork. He then served a woodworker for twelve months and a day. He was paid with a magic...

Reading Notes: English Fairy Tales Part A

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 In a land where animals acted like humans, there were three pigs and a mother pig. The first pig ventured out and found a man with a large bushel of straw. The pig bartered for this straw then build a house with it. A big bad wolf came around and asked the pig to let him in. The pig said no so he huffed and he puffed and he blew his house down. Then wolf ate the pig. Second pig went out and he found a man with lots of Furze. so he bartered with the man, and build a house. The wolf again came down and asked to be let in. The pig said no so he blew his house down and ate him. The third pig came across the man with a load of bricks. He bartered with the man, and built a house out of bricks. The wolf once again came to the pigs house and asked to come in. The pig said no and the wolf tried but failed to blow the house down. So he tried to trick the pig into coming out. He said he knew that a farmer's field across the way had turnips and he would love to take pig there for a meal. They...