is a version of the numerous class of Cinderella stories, the
particular variety being the Catskin sub-species analogous to
Perrault's _Peau d'Ane_. "Catskin" was told by Mr. Burchell to
the young Primroses in "The Vicar of Wakefield,'" and has been
elaborately studied by the late H. C. Coote, in _Folk-Lore
Record_, iii. 1-25. It is only now extant in ballad form, of which
"Cap o' Rushes" may be regarded as a prose version.



XII. TEENY-TINY.

_Source_.--Halliwell, 148.



XIII. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.

_Source_.--I tell this as it was told me in Australia, somewhere
about the year 1860.

_Parallels_.--There is a chap-book version which is very poor; it
is given by Mr. E. S. Hartland, _English Folk and Fairy Tales_
(Camelot Series), p. 35, _seq._ In this, when Jack arrives at the
top of the Beanstalk, he is met by a fairy, who gravely informs him
that the ogre had stolen all his possessions from Jack's father. The
object of this was to prevent the tale becoming an encouragement to
theft! I have had greater confidence in my young friends, and have
deleted the fairy who did not exist in the tale as told to me. For the
Beanstalk elsewhere, see Ralston, _Russian Folk Tales_, 293-8.