_Source._--Contributed to the first edition of Henderson's _Folk-Lore of
the Northern Counties_, pp. 333-5, by Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
_Parallels._--Mr. Nutt gave a version in _Folk-Lore Journal_, vi., 144.
The man in instalments occurs in "The Strange Visitor" (No. xxxii.). The
latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English
children, "Mary Brown," given in Miss Plunket's _Merry Games_, but not
included in Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_.
_Remarks._--This story is especially interesting as having given rise to
a game. Capture and imprisonment are frequently the gruesome _motif_ of
children's games, as in "Prisoner's base." Here it has been used with
romantic effect.