agment "Burd Ellen and Young
Tamlane," i., 258. He parallels the marriage of Peleus and Thetis in
Apollodorus III., xiii., 5, 6, which still persists in modern Greece as
a Cretan ballad.

_Remarks._--Prof. Child remarks that dipping into water or milk is
necessary before transformation can take place, and gives examples,
_l.c._, 338, to which may be added that of Catskin (see Notes _infra_).
He gives as the reason why the Elf-queen would have "ta'en out Tamlane's
two grey eyne," so that henceforth he should not be able to see the
fairies. Was it not rather that he should not henceforth see Burd
Janet?--a subtle touch of jealousy. On dwelling in fairyland Mr.
Hartland has a monograph in his _Science of Fairy Tales_, pp. 161-254.

LXXVI. THE STARS IN THE SKY

_Source._--Mrs. Balfour's old nurse, now in New Zealand. The original is
in broad Scots, which I have anglicised.

_Parallels._--The tradition is widespread that at the foot of the
rainbow treasure is to be found; _cf._ Mr. John Payne's "Sir Edward's
Questing" in his _Songs of Life and Death_.

_Remarks._--The "sell" at the end is scarcely after the manner of the
folk, and various touches throughout indicate a transmission through
minds tainted with culture and introspection.

LXXVII. NEWS!

_Source._--Bell's _Speaker_.

_Parallels._--Jacques de Vitry, _Exempla_, ed. Crane, No. ccv., a
servant being asked the news by his master returned from a pilgrimage to
Compostella, says the dog is lame, and goes on to explain: "While the
dog was running near the mule, the mule kicked him and broke his own
halter and ran through the house, scattering the fire with his hoofs,
and burning down your house with your wife." It occurs even earlier in
Alfonsi's _Disciplina Clericalis_, No. xxx., at beginning of the twelfth
century, among the _Fabliaux_, and in Bebel, _Werke_, iii., 71, whence
probably it was reintroduced into England. See Prof. Crane's note _ad
loc._

_Remarks._--Almost all Alfonsi's _exempla_ are from the East. It is
characteristic that the German version finishes up with a loss of
honour, the English climax being loss of fortune.

LXXVIII. PUDDOCK, MOUSIE, AND RATTON

_Source._--Kirkpatrick Sharpe's _Ballad Book_, 1824, slightly
anglicised.

_Parallels._--Mr. Bullen, in his _Lyrics from Elizabethan Song Books_,
p. 202, gives a version, "The Marriage of the Frog and the Mouse," from
T. Ravenscroft's _Melismata_, 1611. The nursery rhyme of the frog