den. Mr. Nutt informs me that parodies of
the Irish sagas occur as early as the sixteenth century, and the
present tale may be regarded as a specimen.

XIX. FAIR, BROWN, AND TREMBLING.

_Source_.--Curtin, _Myths, &c., of Ireland, 78 seq._

_Parallels_.--The latter half resembles the second part of the
Sea-Maiden (No. xvii.), which see. The earlier portion is a Cinderella
tale (on which see the late Mr. Ralston's article in _Nineteenth
Century_, Nov. 1879, and Mr. Lang's treatment in his Perrault). Miss
Roalfe Cox is about to publish for the Folk-Lore Society a whole volume
of variants of the Cinderella group of stories, which are remarkably
well represented in these isles, nearly a dozen different versions
being known in England, Ireland, and Scotland.

XX. JACK AND HIS MASTER.

_Source_.--Kennedy, _Fireside Stories of Ireland_, 74-80, "Shan an
Omadhan and his Master."

_Parallels_.--It occurs also in Campbell, No. xlv., "Mac a Rusgaich."
It is a European droll, the wide occurrence of which--"the loss of
temper bet" I should call it--is bibliographised by M. Cosquin, _l.c._
ii. 50 (_cf._ notes on No. vi.).

XXI. BETH GELLERT.

_Source_.--I have paraphrased the well-known poem of Hon. W. R.
Spencer, "Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound," first printed
privately as a broadsheet in 1800 when it was composed ("August 11,
1800, Dolymalynllyn" is the colophon). It was published in Spencer's
_Poems_, 1811, pp. 78-86. These dates, it will be seen, are of
importance. Spencer states in a note: "The story of this ballad is
traditionary in a village at the foot of Snowdon where Llewellyn the
Great had a house. The Greyhound named Gelert was given him by his
father-in-law, King John, in the year 1205, and the place to this day
is called Beth-Gelert, or the grave of Gelert." As a matter of fact, no
trace of the tradition in connection with Bedd Gellert can be found
before Spencer's time. It is not mentioned in Leland's _Itinerary_, ed.
Hearne, v. p. 37 ("Beth Kellarth"), in Pennant's _Tour_ (1770), ii.
176, or in Bingley's _Tour in Wales_ (1800). Borrow in his _Wild
Wales_, p. 146, gives the legend, but does not profess to derive it
from local tradition.

_Parallels_.--The only parallel in Celtdom is that noticed by Croker in
his third volume, the legend of Partholan who killed his wife's
greyhound from jealousy: this is found sculptured in stone at Ap Brune,
co. Limerick. As is well known, and ha