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by Adeles Le Roi, Poet Laureate, to Henri III., Duke of
Brabant, fl. 1250 (see Clouston, AZagical Elements in the
Tale, p. 409).

P. 180. Zhe horse. See my Cranford sop, xxxiii.

P. 181. Ass and hound. See Cranford sof, x.

P. 183. My father and Tibert. See Cranford sop,
XXXVIIL.

P. 184. LHistory of the wolf. See Cranford Zsof, v.

P. 190. Liver of a wolf. This incident is given in
Ren., X.

P. 191. Master Reynard. Master was applied mainly
to qualified physicians.

P. 192. Give a part. This is a variant of the fable of
‘The Lion’s Share,’ on which I have commented, History
of the sopic Fable, pp. 74, 166. M. Sudre develops
my thesis, /oc. cf. p. 128 seg. It isclear that we have here
the original form of the fable with carnivorous fellow hunts-
man of the lion as against his herbivorous comrades in
Pheedrus’s fable.

CHAPTER XXII

P. 199. Catch fish with her tail. See Introduction,
pp. xv-xvil, and Krohn’s Bar, Wolf, und Fuchs, pp. 25, 44.
Also Gerber’s further references in Great Russian Animal
Tules, pp. 48, 49. I have given a translation of the earliest
literary version from a Hebrew fable by an English Jew in
my Jews of Angevin England, pp. 170-172. The Scotch
Highland peasants tell the tale to explain ‘How the bear
lost his tail.’

P. 205. Zwo buckets. Told at length in Ren. dr. IV.
M. Sudre, /oc. cit. pp. 226-236, contends that the story has
nothing to do with the Avsopic fable of ‘The Fox and the