in two, when St. Joseph reveals himself, blesses
the pair, and disappears.

This story is sometimes found as a version of the "Thankful Dead," see
Chapter II. note 12. The second story is Pitre, No. 116, "St. Michael
the Archangel and one of his devotees," of which there is a version in
Gonz., No. 76, called, "The Story of Giuseppino." In the first version a
child, Pippino, is sold by his parents to the king in order to obtain
the means to duly celebrate the feast of St. Michael, to whom they were
devoted. The child is brought up in the palace as the princess's
playmate; but when he grows up the king is anxious to get rid of him,
and so sends him on a voyage in an unseaworthy vessel. St. Michael
appears to the lad, and tells him to load the ship with salt. They set
sail, and the rotten ship is about to go to pieces, when the saint
appears and changes the ship into a vessel all of gold. They sell the
cargo to a king who has never tasted salt before, and return to their
own country wealthy. The next voyage Pippino, by the saint's advice,
takes a cargo of cats, which they sell to the king of a country overrun
by mice. Pippino returns and marries the king's daughter. In the version
in Gonz., Giuseppino is a king's son, who leaves his home to see the
world, and becomes the stable-boy of the king whose daughter he marries.
The three cargoes are: salt, cats, and uniforms. On the last voyage,
Giuseppino captures a hostile fleet, and makes his prisoners put on the
uniforms he has in his ship. With this army he returns, and compels the
king to give him his daughter. St. Joseph acts the same part in this
version as St. Michael in Pitre's.

The story of "Whittington and his Cat" will at once occur to the reader.
See Pitre's notes to No. 116, and vol. IV. p. 395, and Koehler to Gonz.,
No. 76.

[15] Koehler has no note on this legend, and I have been unable to find
in the list of saints any name of which Oniria or Neria may be a
corruption.

[16] The references to this story will best be found in Pauli's _Schimpf
und Ernst_, ed. Oesterley, No. 682, and in the same editor's notes to
the _Gesta Romanorum_, cap. 80. To these may be added a story by De
Trueba in his _Narraciones populares_, p. 65, entitled, "_Las Dudas de
San Pedro_;" Luzel, _Legendes Chretiennes_, I. 282, II. 4; _Fiore di
Virtu_, Naples, 1870, p. 68; Etienne de Bourbon, No. 396 (_Anecdotes
historiques, legendes et apologues tires du Receuil inedit d'Etienne de
Bour