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 Spanish 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
eliminated 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. Koehler in Gonzenbach, _Sicil. Maerchen_, ii. 245.