VI. MR. VINEGAR.

_Source_.--Halliwell, p. 149.

_Parallels_.--This is the _Hans im Glueck_ of Grimm (No. 83).
_Cf._ too, "Lazy Jack," _infra_, No. xxvii. Other variants are given by
M. Cosquin, _Contes pop. de Lorraine_, i. 241. On surprising robbers,
see preceding tale.

_Remarks_.--In some of the variants the door is carried, because
Mr. Vinegar, or his equivalent, has been told to "mind the door," or
he acts on the principle "he that is master of the door is master of
the house." In other stories he makes the foolish exchanges to the
entire satisfaction of his wife. (_Cf._ Cosquin, i. 156-7.)



VII. NIX NOUGHT NOTHING.

_Source_.--From a Scotch tale, "Nicht Nought Nothing," collected
by Mr. Andrew Lang in Morayshire, published by him first in _Revue
Celtique_, t. iii; then in his _Custom and Myth_, p. 89; and
again in _Folk-Lore_, Sept. 1890. I have changed the name so as
to retain the _equivoque_ of the giant's reply to the King. I
have also inserted the incidents of the flight, the usual ones in
tales of this type, and expanded the conclusion, which is very
curtailed and confused in the original. The usual ending of tales of