_Remarks_.--One of the best folk-tales that have ever been collected, far superior to any of the continental variants of this tale with which I am acquainted. Mr. Clodd sees in the class of name-guessing stories, a “survival” of the superstition that to know a man's name gives you power over him, for which reason savages object to tell their names. It may be necessary, I find, to explain to the little ones that Tom Tit can only be referred to as “that,” because his name is not known till the end. II. THE THREE SILLIES. _Source_.--From _Folk-Lore Journal_, ii. 40-3; to which it was communicated by Miss C. Burne. _Parallels_.--Prof. Stephens gave a variant from his own memory in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii. 155, as told in Essex at the beginning of the century. Mr. Toulmin Smith gave another version in _The Constitutional_, July 1, 1853, which was translated by his daughter, and contributed to _Mélusine_, t. ii. An Oxfordshire version was given in _Notes and Queries_, April 17, 1852. It occurs also in Ireland, Kennedy, _Fireside Stories_, p. 9. It is Grimm's _Kluge Else_, No. 34, and is spread through the world. Mr. Clouston devotes the seventh chapter of his _Book of Noodles_ to the Quest of the Three Noodles. III. THE ROSE TREE. _Source_.--From the first edition of Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, p. 314, to which it was communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. _Parallels_.--This is better known under the title, “Orange and Lemon,” and with the refrain: “My mother killed me, My father picked my bones, My little sister buried me, Under the marble stones.” I heard this in Australia. Mr. Jones Gives part of it in _Folk Tales of the Magyars_, 418-20, and another version occurs in 4 _Notes and Queries_, vi. 496. Mr. I. Gollancz informs me he remembers a version entitled “Pepper, Salt, and Mustard,” with the refrain just given. Abroad it is Grimm's “Juniper Tree” (No. 47), where see further parallels. The German rhyme is sung by Margaret in the mad scene of Goethe's “Faust.” IV. OLD WOMAN AND PIG. _Source_.--Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes and Tales_, 114. _Parallels_.--_Cf._ Miss Burne, _Shropshire Folk-Lore_, 529; also No. xxxiv. _infra_ (“Cat and Mouse”). It occurs also in Scotch, with the title “The Wife and her Bush of Berries,” Chambers's _Pop. Rhymes_, p. 57. Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_, gives a game named “Club-fist” (No. 75), founded on this, and in his notes refers to German, Danish, and Spanish variants. (_Cf._ Cosquin, ii. 36 _seq._) _Remarks_.--One of the class of Accumulative stories, which are well represented in England. (_Cf. infra_, Nos. xvi., xx., xxxiv.) V. HOW JACK SOUGHT HIS FORTUNE. _Source_.--_American Folk-Lore Journal_ I, 227-8. I have eliminated a malodorous and un-English skunk.