_Source_.--Halliwell, 157.
_Parallels_.--The same story occurs in Lowland Scotch as “Jock and
his Mother,” Chambers, _l.c._, 101; in Ireland, as “I'll be wiser next
time,” Kennedy, _l.c._, 39-42. Abroad it is Grimm's _Hans im Glück_
(No. 83). The “cure by laughing” incident is “common form” in folk-tales
(_cf._ Köhler on Gonzenbach, _Sizil. Märchen_, ii. 210, 224; Jones and
Kropf, _Magyar Tales_, 312).