_Source._--Contributed by Mrs. Balfour originally to _Longman's
Magazine_, and thence to _Folk-Lore_, Sept., 1890.
_Remarks._--A rustic apologue, which is scarcely more than a prolonged
pun on "Coat o' Clay." Mrs. Balfour's telling redeems it from the usual
dulness of folk-tales with a moral or a double meaning.