"Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?"

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“Well, he huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he puffed and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the house down.”

“For out of every hole the rats came tumbling.”

“When the pig saw what he was about, he hung on a pot full of water, and made a blazing fire...and in fell the wolf...”

“...he must need wish in a hurry; and wish he did, that the black pudding may come off his nose.”

“The sky is a-going to fall, I must go and tell the King.”

“Out the Old Woman jumped . 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.”

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