_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.).