Chapter XX: Jack and His Master

_Source._--Kennedy, _Fireside Stories of Ireland_, 74-80, "Shan an Omadhan and his Master."

_Parallels._--It occurs also in Campbell, No. xlv., "Mac a Rusgaich." It is a European droll, the wide occurrence of which--"the loss of temper bet" I should call it--is bibliographised by M. Cosquin, _l. c._ ii., 50 (_cf._ notes on No. vi.).