The story furnishes a good instance of local setting for an old tale,
the pine-apple being well known in Jamaica. It takes two forms, that of
leaving behind an implement necessary for the enjoyment for some
food-supply, and that of throwing it away, in both cases under the
impression that the adviser has done the same, as in number 13.
Compare, for both spoon and knife episodes, Theal’s Hlakanyana cycle,
105–107; for the knife, Nassau, 85; 90; for the spoon, Chatelain, 17
(incomplete); Tremearne, 231–233. In Dayrell, 51, the abandoned
implement is a drinking-horn. In the Bahama versions of the same story
(Parsons, Andros Islands, 70–74; Edwards, 80–82) the episode does not
appear.