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."