_Source_.--I give this as it was told me in Australia in 1860. The fun
consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jaw-breaking
sentences almost equal to the celebrated “She stood at the door of the
fish-sauce shop, welcoming him in.”
_Parallels_.--Halliwell, p. 151, has the same with the title
“Chicken-Licken.” It occurs also in Chambers's _Popular Rhymes_, p.
59, with the same names of the _dramatis personae_, as my version. For
European parallels, see Crane, _Ital. Pop. Tales_, 377, and authorities
there quoted.