Cosquin has some remarks on magical ascents (i. 14).



XIV. THREE LITTLE PIGS.

_Source_.--Halliwell, p. 16.

_Parallels_.--The only known parallels are one from Venice,
Bernoni, _Trad. Pop._, punt. iii. p. 65, given in Crane, _Italian Popular
Tales_, p. 267, "The Three Goslings;" and a negro tale in _Lippincott's
Magazine_, December, 1877, p. 753 ("Tiny Pig").

_Remarks_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-
chins, I suspect that they were originally kids, who have. This would
bring the tale close to the Grimms' "Wolf and Seven Little Kids," (No.
5). In Steel and Temple's "Lambikin" (_Wide-awake Stories_, p.
71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the
jackal.



XV. MASTER AND PUPIL

_Source_.--Henderson, _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_,
first edition, p. 343, communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. The
rhymes on the open book have been supplied by Mr. Batten, in whose
family, if I understand him rightly, they have been long used for
raising the----; something similar occurs in Halliwell, p. 243, as a
riddle rhyme. The mystic signs in Greek are a familiar "counting-out