r variants in which the helpful animal is rather
dragged in by the horns. Mr. Nutt's lucky find at the last moment seems
to throw more light on the origin of the tale than almost the whole of
the remaining collection.

But does this find necessarily prove an original Celtic origin for
Cinderella? Scarcely. It remains to be proved that this introductory
part of the story with helpful animal was necessarily part of the
original. Having regard to the feudal character underlying the whole
conception, it remains possible that the earlier part was ingeniously
dovetailed on to the latter from some pre-existing and more archaic
tale, perhaps that represented by the Grimms' _One Eyed, Two Eyes, and
Three Eyes_. The possibility of the introduction of an archaic formula
which had become a convention of folk-telling cannot be left out of
account.

The "Youngest-best" formula which occurs in Cinderella, and on which Mr.
Lang laid much stress in his treatment of the subject in his "Perrault"
as a survival of the old tenure of "junior right," does not throw much
light on the subject. Mr. Ralston, in the _Nineteenth Century_, 1879,
was equally unenlightening with his sun-myths.

[Footnote 2: Chamber's II. consists entirely and solely of these
incidents.]

LXXIV. KING O' CATS

_Source._--I have taken a point here and a point there from the various
English versions mentioned in the next section.

I have expanded the names, so as to make a jingle from the Dildrum and
Doldrum of Hartland.

_Parallels._--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in
England: (1) Halliwell, _Pop. Rhymes_, 167, "Molly Dixon"; (2) _Choice
Notes--Folk-Lore_, p. 73, "Colman Grey"; (3) _Folk-Lore Journal_, ii.,
22, "King o' the Cats"; (4) _Folk-Lore--England_ (Gibbings), "Johnny
Reed's Cat"; (5) Hartland and Wilkinson, _Lancashire Legends_, p. 13,
"Dildrum Doldrum." Sir F. Palgrave gives a Danish parallel; _cf._
Halliwell, _l.c._

_Remarks._--An interesting example of the spread and development of a
simple anecdote throughout England. Here again we can scarcely imagine
more than a single origin for the tale which is, in its way, as weird
and fantastic as E.A. Poe.

LXXV. TAMLANE

_Source._--From Scott's _Minstrelsy_, with touches from the other
variants given by Prof. Child in his _Eng. and Scotch Ballads_, i.,
335-58.

_Parallels._--Prof. Child gives no less than nine versions in his
masterly edition, _l.c._, besides another fr