Chapter XXVII: Lazy Jack

_Source_.--Halliwell, 157.

_Parallels_.--The same story occurs in Lowland Scotch as “Jock and his Mother,” Chambers, _l.c._, 101; in Ireland, as “I'll be wiser next time,” Kennedy, _l.c._, 39-42. Abroad it is Grimm's _Hans im Glück_ (No. 83). The “cure by laughing” incident is “common form” in folk-tales (_cf._ Köhler on Gonzenbach, _Sizil. Märchen_, ii. 210, 224; Jones and Kropf, _Magyar Tales_, 312).