Joseph Jacobs: Tell

Joseph Jacobs was British historian. Explore interesting quotes on tell.

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“Kind sir, if the truth I must tell,
At the sign of Basin of Water I dwell.”

(said by Princess Catskin).
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Catskin

“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.”

Joseph Jacobs book English Fairy Tales

(note Goldilocks doesn't feature in this particular version of the story).
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears

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

Joseph Jacobs book English Fairy Tales

said by Henny-Penny, similar to the words said by Chicken Little
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Henny-Penny