_Parallels_.--The story is clearly that of Grimm's "Singing Bone"
(No. 28), where one brother slays the other and buries him under a
bush. Years after a shepherd passing by finds a bone under the bush,
and, blowing through this, hears the bone denounce the murderer. For
numerous variants in Ballads and Folk Tales, see Prof. Child's
_English and Scotch Ballads_ (ed. 1886), i. 125, 493; iii. 499.



X. MOUSE AND MOUSER.

_Source_.--From memory by Mrs. E. Burne-Jones.

_Parallels_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's
_Popular Rhymes_ has a Scotch version, "The Cattie sits in the
Kilnring spinning" (p. 53). The surprise at the end, similar to that
in Perrault's "Red Riding Hood," is a frequent device in English folk
tales. (_Cf. infra_, Nos. xii., xxiv., xxix., xxxiii., xli.)



XI. CAP O' RUSHES.

_Source_.--Discovered by Mr. E. Clodd, in "Suffolk Notes and
Queries" of the _Ipswich Journal_, published by Mr. Lang in
_Longinan's Magazine_, vol. xiii, also in _Folk-Lore_, Sept.
1890.

_Parallels_.--The beginning recalls "King Lear." For "loving like
salt," see the parallels collected by Cosquin, i. 288. The whole story