_Remarks._--I need scarcely suggest the identification of the Ploughman with the----. As usual in folk-tales, that personage does not get the best of the bargain. The rustic Faust evades his contract by a direct appeal to the higher powers. This is probably characteristic of Scotch piety. XXXVII. THE GREEK PRINCESS AND THE YOUNG GARDENER. _Sources._--Kennedy, _Fireside Stories_, pp. 47-56. _Parallels._--Campbell, _West Highland Tales_, lvi.; _Mac Iain Direach_, ii. 344-76. He gives other variants at the end. The story is clearly that of the Grimms' "Golden Bird," No. 57. They give various parallels in their notes. Mrs. Hunt refers to an Eskimo version in Rae's _White Sea Peninsula_, called "Kuobba the Giant and the Devil." But the most curious and instructive parallel is that afforded by the Arthurian Romance of Walewein (_i.e._, Gawain), now only extant in Dutch, which, as Professor W. P. Ker has pointed out in _Folk-lore_, v. 121, exactly corresponds to the popular tale, and thus carries it back in Celtdom to the early twelfth century at the latest. XXXVIII. THE RUSSET DOG. _Source._--I have made up this Celtic Reynard out of several fables given by Campbell, _West Highland Tales_, under the title "Fables," vol. i. pp. 275 _seq._; and "The Keg of Butter" and the "The Fox and the little Bonnach," vol. iii. Nos. lxv. lxvi. _Parallels._--The Fox's ruse about a truce among the animals is a well-known AEsop's Fable; see my edition of _Caxton's AEsop_, vol. ii. p. 307, and _Parallels_, vol. i. p. 267. The trick by which the cock gets out of the fox's mouth is a part of the Reynard Cycle, and is given by Chaucer as his "Nonne Preste's Tale." How the wolf lost his tail is also part of the same cycle, the parallels of which are given by K. Krohn, _Baer_ (_Wolf_) _und Fuchs_ (Helsingfors, 1889), pp. 26-8. The same writer has studied the geographical distribution of the story in Finland, accompanied by a map, in _Fennia_, iv. No. 4. I have given a mediaeval Hebrew version in my _Jews of Angevin England_, pp. 170-2. See also Gerber, _Great Russian Animal Tales_, pp. 48-50. The wolf was originally the bear, as we see from the conclusion of the incident, which professes to explain why the wolf is stumpy-tailed. "The Keg of Butter" combines two of the Grimm stories, 2, 189. "The Little Bonnach" occurs also in English and has been given in two variants in _English Fairy Tales_, No. xxviii.; and _More English Fairy Tales_, No. lvii.