h the royal white horse to speak. The
wise man's daughter saves her father's life by telling him what to
reply to the king (Parker, 1 : 199-200, No. 27).--In Parker, 3 :
112-113 (No. 204), a country-girl meets a prince, to whose questions
she gives enigmatical replies. He is clever enough to interpret
them correctly.

Page 63 (4). In Parker, 2 : 7-9 (No. 78), a king requires milk from
oxen. The clever village girl's answer is of a kind with Marcela's
(our collection, p. 55): she sets out for the washerman's with a
bundle of cloths, is met by the king, and tells him her father has
come of age in the same manner as women (i.e., he has menstruated).

8.

For stealing eggs from under bird, see Bolte-Polivka, 3 :
57-58. Bolte-Polivka's notes on Grimm, No. 192, include a discussion
of both the "Master Thief" cycle (3 : 379-395) and the Rhampsinitus
"Treasure-House" saga (3 : 395-406). Two Sinhalese variants of the
latter cycle, lacking in Bolte-Polivka's bibliography, are Parker's
No. 189 and variant (3 : 41-46). Here the thieves are father and son;
son cuts off father's head to prevent identification. The stories end
with the exposure of the body and the escape of the son, who falls
from a tree when his mother bursts into laments at the sight of her
husband's corpse.

Four American Indian versions of the "Master Thief" are analyzed by
Thompson (427-429),--Maliseet, Dakota, Thompson River, Wyandot.

A Oaxaca version of the "Master Thief" is given in Radin-Espinosa,
226-227 (No. 116): it preserves a number of features of the
Rhampsinitus story. Likewise a New-Mexican Spanish tale (JAFL 24 :
423-424), in which, after preliminary skill-tests, the two thieves
rob the king. The Mexican thief is caught; the Spanish thief cuts off
his head. The corpse, by order of the king, is carried through town,
and the house of the mourner is marked with blood. The Spanish thief
escapes by marking all the houses with blood. (For the bibliography
of marking all the house-doors with chalk to prevent discovery,
see Bolte-Polivka, 3 : 145, note.)

9.

Page 78. Not counting self. This incident occurs in a Sinhalese story
(Parker, 1 : 258, No. 44). (See ibid., 259, for three variants from
India and one from China.) Comparative bibliography of this motif is
given in Bolte-Polivka, 3 : 149 (note 1).

Page 78. Killing fly on face. Sinhalese (Parker, 1 : 319-321, No. 58):
The stupid hero strikes with a rice-pestle at a fly on his mother's
head