Chapter 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.