Chapter XX: Henny-Penny

_Source_.--I give this as it was told me in Australia in 1860. The fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jaw-breaking sentences almost equal to the celebrated “She stood at the door of the fish-sauce shop, welcoming him in.”

_Parallels_.--Halliwell, p. 151, has the same with the title “Chicken-Licken.” It occurs also in Chambers's _Popular Rhymes_, p. 59, with the same names of the _dramatis personae_, as my version. For European parallels, see Crane, _Ital. Pop. Tales_, 377, and authorities there quoted.