_Source_.--Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes and Tales_, 114.
_Parallels_.--_Cf._ Miss Burne, _Shropshire Folk-Lore_, 529; also No.
xxxiv. _infra_ (“Cat and Mouse”). It occurs also in Scotch, with the
title “The Wife and her Bush of Berries,” Chambers's _Pop. Rhymes_, p.
57. Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_, gives a game named
“Club-fist” (No. 75), founded on this, and in his notes refers to
German, Danish, and Spanish variants. (_Cf._ Cosquin, ii. 36 _seq._)
_Remarks_.--One of the class of Accumulative stories, which are well
represented in England. (_Cf. infra_, Nos. xvi., xx., xxxiv.)