ly." When he heard this, Putraka said " What is the use of fighting ? make

this agreement, that whoever proves the hest man in running shall possess this wealth."* Those simpletons said " Agreed" and set off to run, while the prince put on the shoes and flew up into the air, taking with him the

• A similar incident is found in Grimm's Fairy Tales translated by Mrs. Paull,

p. 370. The hero of the tale called the Crystal Ball finds two giants fighting for a little hat. On his expn -ssing his wonder, " Ah", they replied " you call it old, you do not know its value. It is what is called a wishing-hat, and whoever puts it on can wish himself where he will, and immediately he is there." " Give me the hat," replied the young man, " I will go on a little way and when I call you must both run a race to overtake me, and whoever reaches me first, to him the hat shall belong." The giants agreed and the youth taking the hat put it on and went away ; but he was thinking so much of the princess that he forgot the giants and the hat, and continued to go further and further without calling them. Presently he sighed deeply and said, " Ah if I were only at the Castle of the golden sun."

Wilson (Collected AVorks, Vol. Ill, p. 169, note,) observes that " the story is told almost in the same words in the Bahar Danish, a purse being substituted for the rod ; Jahandar obtains possession of it, as well as the cup, and slippers in a similar manner. "NYVber [Eastern Romances, Introduction, p. 39] has noticed the analogy which the slippers bear to tin 1 cap of Fortunatus. The inexhaustible purse, although not mentioned here, is of Hindu origin also, and a fraudulent representative of it makes a great figure in one of the stories of the Dasa Kumara Charita" [eh. 2, see also L. Dcslongchamps Essai sur ables Indiennes. Paris, 1838, p. 35 f. and Grasse, Sagen des Mittelalters, Leipzig, 1812, p. 19 f.] The additions between brackets are due to Dr. Reinholdt Host the editor of "Wilson's Essays.

The Mongolian form of the story may be found in Sagas from the Far East, p. 24. A similar incident is also found in the Swedish story in Thorpe's Scandinavian Tales, entitled " the Beautiful Palace East of the Sun and North of the Earth." A youth acquires boots by means of which he can go a hundred miles at every step, and a cloak, that ivndi rs him invisible, in a very similar way.

I find that in the notes in Grimm's 3rd Volume, page 168, (edition of 1856) the passage in Somadeva is referred to, and other parallels given. The author of these notes ares a Swedish story in Cavallius, p. 182, and Priihle, Kindcrmarchen, No. 22. He also quotes from the Sidi Kiir, the story to which I have referred in Sagas from the Far Bart, and compares a Norwegian story in Ashhjiirnsen, pp. 53, 171, a Hungarian story in Muilath and Gaal, N. 7, and an Arabian tale in the continuation of the 1001 Nights. See also Sicilianischo Marchen by Laura Gonzenbach, Parti, Story 31. Here we have a table-clotfe, a purse, and a pipe. When the table-cloth is spread out one has only to say Dear little table-cloth, give maccaroni or roast-meat or wh,: may be required, and it is immediately present. The purse will supply as much money as one asks it for, and the pipe is something like that of the pied piper of Ilanielin, one who hears it must dance. Dr. Kiihler in his notes, at the did of Laura Gonzenbach' s collection, compares (besides the story ofl'ortutiatu.s, and (Jrinun I Il.:>oi2,)

le, Kinder-und Hau>iiiiuvhen, 1 1. 7.'] and 193. Curze, Popular Traditions from

Waldeck, ]i.:;]. < M-sta Kollianorum, (.'hap. 1 _'<>. (.'ainpl.eH'.- 1 lighlaml Tales, No. 10, and many others. The f-h,,, s in <,ur j i may also be cuinparcd with thu bed in the IXth Novel of the Xth day of f] ron.