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English Fairy Tales

XXXII. The Strange Visitor

Source.—From Chambers, l.c., 64, much Anglicised. I have retained “Aih−late− wee−moul, ” though I candidly confess I have not the slightest idea what it means; judging other children by myself, I do not think that makes the response less effective. The prosaic−minded may substitute “Up−late−and−little−food.”

Parallels.—The man made by instalments, occurs in the Grimms' No. 4, and something like it in an English folk−tale, The Golden Ball, ap. Henderson, l.c., p. 333.