The "Youngest-best" formula which occurs in Cinderella, and on which Mr.
Lang laid much stress in his treatment of the subject in his "Perrault"
as a survival of the old tenure of "junior right," does not throw much
light on the subject. Mr. Ralston, in the _Nineteenth Century_, 1879,
was equally unenlightening with his sun-myths.
[Footnote 2: Chamber's II. consists entirely and solely of these
incidents.]
LXXIV. KING O' CATS
_Source._--I have taken a point here and a point there from the various
English versions mentioned in the next section.
I have expanded the names, so as to make a jingle from the Dildrum and
Doldrum of Hartland.
_Parallels._--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in
England: (1) Halliwell, _Pop. Rhymes_, 167, "Molly Dixon"; (2) _Choice
Notes--Folk-Lore_, p. 73, "Colman Grey"; (3) _Folk-Lore Journal_, ii.,
22, "King o' the Cats"; (4) _Folk-Lore--England_ (Gibbings), "Johnny
Reed's Cat"; (5) Hartland and Wilkinson, _Lancashire Legends_, p.
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