it as "Indeterminate," and it has only the _Menial Heroine_ and
_Happy Marriage_ episodes in common with stories of the Cinderella type.

_Remarks._--_Tattercoats_ is of interest chiefly as being without any
"fairy" or supernatural elements, unless the magic pipe can be so
considered; it certainly gives the tale a fairy-like element. It is
practically a prose variant of _King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid_, and
is thus an instance of the folk-novel pure and simple, without any
admixture of those unnatural incidents which transform the folk-novel
into the serious folk-tale as we are accustomed to have it. Which is the
prior, folk-novel or tale, it would be hard to say.

LVII. THE WEE BANNOCK

_Source._--Chambers's _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. I have attempted an
impossibility, I fear, in trying to anglicise, but the fun of the
original tempted me. There still remain several technical trade terms
requiring elucidation. I owe the following to the kindness of the Rev.
Mr. Todd Martin, of Belfast. _Lawtrod_ = lap board on which the tailor
irons; _tow cards_, the comb with which tow is carded; the _clove_, a
heavy wooden knife for breaking up the flax. _Heckling_ is combing it
with a _heckle_ or wooden comb; _binnings_ are halters for cattle made
of _sprit_ or rushes. _Spurtle_ = spoon; _whins_ = gorse.

_Parallels._--This is clearly a variant of _Johnny-cake_ = journey-cake,
No. xxviii., where see Notes.

_Remarks._--But here the interest is with the pursuers rather than with
the pursued. The subtle characterisation of the various occupations
reaches a high level of artistic merit. Mr. Barrie himself could
scarcely have succeeded better in a very difficult task.

LVIII. JOHNNY GLOKE

_Source._--Contributed by Mr. W. Gregor to _Folk-Lore Journal_, vii. I
have rechristened "Johnny Glaik" for the sake of the rhyme, and
anglicised the few Scotticisms.

_Parallels._--This is clearly _The Valiant Tailor_ of the Grimms: "_x_
at a blow" has been bibliographised. (See my List of Incidents in Trans.
Folk-Lore Congress, 1892, _sub voce._)

_Remarks._--How _The Valiant Tailor_ got to Aberdeen one cannot tell,
though the resemblance is close enough to suggest a direct "lifting"
from some English version of Grimm's _Goblins_. At the same time it must
be remembered that _Jack the Giant Killer_ (see Notes on No. xix.)
contains some of the incidents of _The Valiant Tailor_.

LIX. COAT O CLAY

_Source._--Contributed by Mrs