_Source_.--From memory by Mrs. E. Burne-Jones.
_Parallels_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's _Popular
Rhymes_ has a Scotch version, “The Cattie sits in the Kilnring spinning”
(p. 53). The surprise at the end, similar to that in Perrault's “Red
Riding Hood,” is a frequent device in English folk tales. (_Cf. infra_,
Nos. xii., xxiv., xxix., xxxiii., xli.)