144 English Fairy Tales 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 Span- ish 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 elimi- nated a malodorous and un-English skunk. Parallels .—Two other versions are given in the Journal l.c. One of these, however, was probably derived from Grimm’s “Town Musicians of Bremen” (No. 27). That the others came from across the Atlantic is shown by the fact that it occurs in Ireland (Kennedy, Fictions , pp. 5-10) and Scotland (Campbell, No. 11). For other variants, see R. Köhler in Gonzenbach, Sicil. Märchen , ii. 245.
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