_The Old Woman and Her Pig_ illustrates the second class of accumulative tale, where there is an addition, and like _Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse_, where the end turns back on the beginning and changes all that precedes. Here there is a more marked plot. This same tale occurs in Shropshire Folk-Lore, in the _Scotch Wife and Her Bush of Berries_, in _Club-Fist_, an American folk-game described by Newell, in Cossack fairy tales, and in the Danish, Spanish, and Italian. In the Scandinavian, it is _Nanny, Who Wouldn't Go Home to Supper_, and in the Punjab, _The Grain of Corn_, also given in _Tales of Laughter_. I have never seen a child who did not like it or who was not pleased with himself for accomplishing its telling. It lends itself most happily to illustration. _Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse_ pleases because of the liveliness of its images, and because of the catastrophe at the end, which affects the child just as the tumble of his huge pile of blocks--the crash and general upheaval delight him. This tale has so many variants that it illustrates well the diffusion of fairy tales. It is Grimm's _The Spider and the Flea_, which as we have seen, is appealing in its simplicity; the Norse _The Cock Who Fell into the Brewing Vat_; and the Indian _The Death and Burial of Poor Hen_. The curious succession of incidents may have been invented once for all at some definite time, and from thence spread to all the world. _Johnny Cake_ and _The Gingerbread Man_ also represent the second class of accumulative tale, but show a more definite plot; there is more story-stuff and a more decided introduction and conclusion. _How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune_ also shows more plot. It contains a theme similar to that of _The Bremen Town Musicians_, which is distinctly a beast tale where the element of repetition remains to sustain the interest and to preserve unity, but where a full-fledged short-story which is structurally complete, has developed. A fine accumulative tale belonging to this second class is the Cossack _Straw Ox_, which has been described under "The Short-Story." Here we have a single line of sequence which gets wound up to a climax and then unwinds itself to the conclusion, giving the child, in the plot, something of that pleasure which he feels in winding up his toy animals to watch them perform in the unwinding.