III. LAMBIKIN.

_Source._--Steel-Temple, _Wideawake Stories_, pp. 69-72, originally

published in _Indian Antiquary_, xii. 175. The droll is common

throughout the Panjab.

_Parallels._--The similarity of the concluding episode with the finish

of the "Three Little Pigs" (_Eng. Fairy Tales_, No. xiv.) In my notes

on that droll I have pointed out that the pigs were once goats or kids

with "hair on their chinny chin chin." This brings the tale a stage

nearer to the Lambikin.

_Remarks._--The similarity of Pig No. 3 rolling down hill in the churn

and the Lambikin in the Drumikin can scarcely be accidental, though,

it must be confessed, the tale has undergone considerable modification

before it reached England.

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