k towards the "Good People," as
indeed their euphemistic name really implies.

XLVIII. THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY

_Source._--Chambers's _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_, much Anglicised in
language, but otherwise unaltered.

_Parallels._--Chambers, _l.c._, gave a variant with the title "The Red
Bull o' Norroway." Kennedy, _Legendary Fictions_, p. 87, gives a variant
with the title "The Brown Bear of Norway." Mr. Stewart gave a Leitrim
version, in which "Norroway" becomes "Orange," in _Folk-Lore_ for June,
1893, which Miss Peacock follows up with a Lincolnshire parallel
(showing the same corruption of name) in the September number. A
reference to the "Black Bull o' Norroway" occurs in Sidney's _Arcadia_,
as also in the _Complaynt of Scotland_, 1548. The "sale of bed" incident
at the end has been bibliographised by Miss Cox in her volume of
variants of _Cinderella_, p. 481. It probably existed in one of the
versions of _Nix Nought Nothing_ (No. vii.).

_Remarks._--The Black Bull is clearly a Beast who ultimately wins a
Beauty. But the tale as is told is clearly not sufficiently motivated.
Miss Peacock's version renders it likely that a fuller account may yet
be recovered in England.

XLIX. YALLERY BROWN

_Source._--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," in
_Folk-Lore_, ii. It was told to Mrs. Balfour by a labourer, who
professed to be the hero of the story, and related it in the first
person. I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the
oblique narration, and toned down the dialect.

_Parallels._--"Tiddy Mun," the hero of another of Mrs. Balfour's legends
(_l.c._, p. 151) was "none bigger 'n a three years old bairn," and had
no proper name.

_Remarks._--One might almost suspect Mrs. Balfour of being the victim of
a piece of invention on the part of her autobiographical informant. But
the scrap of verse, especially in its original dialect, has such a
folkish ring that it is probable he was only adapting a local legend to
his own circumstances.

L. THE THREE FEATHERS

_Source._--Collected by Mrs. Gomme from some hop-pickers near Deptford.

_Parallels._--The beginning is _a la_ Cupid and Psyche, on which Mr.
Lang's monograph in the Carabas series is the classic authority. The
remainder is an Eastern tale, the peregrinations of which have been
studied by Mr. Clouston in his _Pop. Tales and Fictions_, ii., 289,
_seq._ _The Wright's Chaste Wife_ is the English _fabliau_ on the
subjec