234 Notes and References.

- generation is, however, more difficult todetermine. In favour of the
Celtic is the polygamous framework ; while on the other hand, it is
difficult to guess how the story could have got from the Highlands to
Germany. The simpler form of the riddle in the German version
might seem to argue greater antiquity.

XLVI. THE TAIL.

Source. Poe sual, No. Mii.
Parallels —Most story-tellers have some formula of this kind to
conclude their narrations. Prof. Crane gives some examples in his .
Italian Popular Tales, pp. 155-7. The English have: “T’ll tell you
a story of Jack a Nory,” and “The Three Wise Men of Gotham” who
went to Sea in a Bowl :

“If the bowl had been stronger,
My song would have been longer.”

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