_Parallels_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's _Popular Rhymes_ has a Scotch version, “The Cattie sits in the Kilnring spinning” (p. 53). The surprise at the end, similar to that in Perrault's “Red Riding Hood,” is a frequent device in English folk tales. (_Cf. infra_, Nos. xii., xxiv., xxix., xxxiii., xli.) XI. CAP O' RUSHES. _Source_.--Discovered by Mr. E. Clodd, in “Suffolk Notes and Queries” of the _Ipswich Journal_, published by Mr. Lang in _Longinan's Magazine_, vol. xiii, also in _Folk-Lore_, Sept. 1890. _Parallels_.--The beginning recalls “King Lear.” For “loving like salt,” see the parallels collected by Cosquin, i. 288. The whole story is a version of the numerous class of Cinderella stories, the particular variety being the Catskin sub-species analogous to Perrault's _Peau d'Ane_. “Catskin” was told by Mr. Burchell to the young Primroses in “The Vicar of Wakefield,'” and has been elaborately studied by the late H. C. Coote, in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii. 1-25. It is only now extant in ballad form, of which “Cap o' Rushes” may be regarded as a prose version. XII. TEENY-TINY. _Source_.--Halliwell, 148. XIII. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK. _Source_.--I tell this as it was told me in Australia, somewhere about the year 1860. _Parallels_.--There is a chap-book version which is very poor; it is given by Mr. E. S. Hartland, _English Folk and Fairy Tales_ (Camelot Series), p. 35, _seq._ In this, when Jack arrives at the top of the Beanstalk, he is met by a fairy, who gravely informs him that the ogre had stolen all his possessions from Jack's father. The object of this was to prevent the tale becoming an encouragement to theft! I have had greater confidence in my young friends, and have deleted the fairy who did not exist in the tale as told to me. For the Beanstalk elsewhere, see Ralston, _Russian Folk Tales_, 293-8. Cosquin has some remarks on magical ascents (i. 14). XIV. THREE LITTLE PIGS. _Source_.--Halliwell, p. 16. _Parallels_.--The only known parallels are one from Venice, Bernoni, _Trad. Pop._, punt. iii. p. 65, given in Crane, _Italian Popular Tales_, p. 267, “The Three Goslings;” and a negro tale in _Lippincott's Magazine_, December, 1877, p. 753 (“Tiny Pig”). _Remarks_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-chins, I suspect that they were originally kids, who have. This would bring the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Little Kids,” (No. 5). In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (_Wide-awake Stories_, p. 71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal. XV. MASTER AND PUPIL