_Source_.--Halliwell, p. 16.
_Parallels_.--The only known parallels are one from Venice, Bernoni,
_Trad. Pop._, punt. iii. p. 65, given in Crane, _Italian Popular
Tales_, p. 267, “The Three Goslings;” and a negro tale in _Lippincott's
Magazine_, December, 1877, p. 753 (“Tiny Pig”).
_Remarks_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-chins,
I suspect that they were originally kids, who have. This would bring
the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Little Kids,” (No. 5).
In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (_Wide-awake Stories_, p. 71), the
Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal.