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

"Turn again Whittington, Thrice Mayor of London"

"Well, he [the wolf] huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he puffed and he puffed and huffed; but he could not ge…"

"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 …"

"Out the Old Woman jumped (of the window). And whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lo…"

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

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

"There once was upon a time a poor widow who had an only son Jack, and a cow called Milky-White."

"You don't know what these beans are, said the man [that Jack meets]. If you plant them overnight, by morning they gre…"

"My man is an ogre and there is nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast."