Chapter XIV: Three Little Pigs

_Source_.--Halliwell, p. 16.

_Parallels_.--The only known parallels are one from Venice, Bernoni, _Trad. Pop._, punt. iii. p. 65, given in Crane, _Italian Popular Tales_, p. 267, “The Three Goslings;” and a negro tale in _Lippincott's Magazine_, December, 1877, p. 753 (“Tiny Pig”).

_Remarks_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-chins, I suspect that they were originally kids, who have. This would bring the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Little Kids,” (No. 5). In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (_Wide-awake Stories_, p. 71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal.