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Cow is definitely an ordinary animal and hen with golden eggs is definitely not. We don't know how long it will live but in the story it lays eggs on command - as many as its owner wish.

The last in-text image intrigues me.

Is the male character supposed to be Jack or the giant meditating on the singing harp?

Please accept my apologies again if I ask a question twice because of the computer behaving like I just concluded, instead of just commenced, my comment.

The 10 fairy-tale counterparts in the 9th fact feature a fairy tale from the Indian subcontinent.

Is that fairy tale from way before, concurrent with or just after the Grimm Brothers?

A philosophical solution would not find room for God, but a theological solution would.

All mulch attracts slugs and snails. One type of mulch does notnattract more than another.

It depends on the weather. I always used boots. I never used skis.

The introductory paragraph cautions us about slugs clustering under winter mulch.

Is all mulch attractive to slugs or might there be some mulches -- such as leaf mold -- more attractive than others?

Three shiftsvofb8 hours makes sense, so it is probably that

The last sentence in your introduction declares that "I intend to work on a theological solution rather than a philosophical one."

What might a philosophical solution configure itself?

The fourth sentence in the introductory paragraph advises us that "like all parts of Wales the weather has ranged between lovely sunshine and thick snow."

What kind of footwear -- boots? cross-country skis? -- does one need for a snow-covered Carneddau-Ridge walk?

Thank you!

Twenty-four-hour coverage here generally equates to three eight-hour shifts daily. The generally 40-hour week therefore figures five days weekly.

Is that what the Kew police force works?

The way in which lists are ordered always cause me to consider why this order, why not another.

My inclination generally favors alphabetical or reverse-alphabetical order as easiest remembered.

So may I ask if there might be an order to the non-alphabetical -- ;-D -- order of the beauty and beast-like fairy tales under the 9th fact, Some fairy tales similar to Beauty and the Beast?

Might they be from oldest to recentest or from popularest to unpopularest?

Please accept my apologies for possibly two sets of identical comments and questions within minutes of one another. The computer acted at the last minute as if I asked my question signed out already.

The first sentence to the 9th symbol, Singing Harp, avows that "The harp is a symbol of art and a higher being."

The last sentence to that aforementioned symbol concludes that "Harp, as a representation of creativity, suggests he is ready to make something of his life."

Is it not perhaps contradictory that such a "celestial" and "heavenly" symbol is with someone inimical to such goodness and discouraging that such a celestial, heavenly symbol managed no modifications in the murderous giant?

(But perhaps that giant would have been unimaginably worse without the harp present?!?)

It is is pronounced ka-NA-ta. There is a town outside of Ottawa with the same name.

The Preakness was not held in those years due to financial issues at Pimlico. For the same reason, the race was moved to Morris Park in 1890, then cancelled altogether for three years. Then it moved to Brooklyn from 1894 to 1908, not returning to Pimlico until 1909.