_Source_.--Discovered by Mr. E. Clodd, in “Suffolk Notes and Queries” of
the _Ipswich Journal_, published by Mr. Lang in _Longinan's Magazine_,
vol. xiii, also in _Folk-Lore_, Sept. 1890.
_Parallels_.--The beginning recalls “King Lear.” For “loving like salt,”
see the parallels collected by Cosquin, i. 288. The whole story is a
version of the numerous class of Cinderella stories, the particular
variety being the Catskin sub-species analogous to Perrault's _Peau
d'Ane_. “Catskin” was told by Mr. Burchell to the young Primroses in
“The Vicar of Wakefield,'” and has been elaborately studied by the late
H. C. Coote, in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii. 1-25. It is only now extant
in ballad form, of which “Cap o' Rushes” may be regarded as a prose
version.