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 250 XII. TEENY-TINY

Source.—Halliwell, 148.

Parallels.—Hunt, Drolls of West of England, p. 452.

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"). Another English version is given in Mr. Lang's Green Fairy Book.

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 Steele and Temple's "Lambikin" (Wide Awake Stories, p. 71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal. See Indian Fairy Tales, No. iii. and Notes.