this class contains the "sale of bed" incident, for which see Child,
i. 391.

_Parallels_.--Mr. Lang, in the essay "A Far-travelled Tale" in
which he gives the story, mentions several variants of it, including
the classical myth of Jason and Medea. A fuller study in Cosquin,
_l.c._, ii. 12-28. For the finger ladder, see Koehler, in _Orient and
Occident_, ii. III.



VIII. JACK HANNAFORD.

_Source_.--Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_
(first edition), p. 319. Communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.

_Parallels_.--"Pilgrims from Paradise" are enumerated in
Clouston's _Book of Noodles_, pp. 205, 214-8. See also Cosquin,
_l.c._, i. 239.



IX. BINNORIE.

_Source_.--From the ballad of the "Twa Sisters o' Binnorie." I
have used the longer version in Roberts's _Legendary Ballads_,
with one or two touches from Mr. Allingham's shorter and more powerful
variant in _The Ballad Book_. A tale is the better for length, a
ballad for its curtness.