Mr. Proudfit remarks
that the cry "Look me" was very impressive.
LXX. A POTTLE O' BRAINS
_Source._--Contributed by Mrs. Balfour to _Folk-Lore_, II.
_Parallels._--The fool's wife is clearly related to the Clever Lass of
"Gobborn Seer," where see Notes.
_Remarks._--The fool is obviously of the same family as he of the "Coat
o' Clay" (No. lix.) if he is not actually identical with him. His
adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones. The Noodle
family is strongly represented in English folk-tales, which would seem
to confirm Carlyle's celebrated statistical remark.
LXXI. THE KING OF ENGLAND
_Source._--Mr. F. Hindes Groome, _In Gypsy Tents_, told him by John
Roberts, a Welsh gypsy, with a few slight changes and omission of
passages insisting upon the gypsy origin of the three helpful brothers.
_Parallels._--The king and his three sons are familiar figures in
European _maerchen_. Slavonic parallels are enumerated by Leskien Brugman
in their _Lithauische Maerchen_, notes on No.
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