boots.' So she said it again, and they gave her a pair of boots. Then she went to the stonemason's and said—
'My mother, &c., &c., &c.'
And they said, 'If you say it again we will give you a piece of marble as big as your head.' So she said it again, and they gave her a piece of marble as big as her head.
She took the things, and flew home, and sat at the top of the chimney, and shouted down—
'Father! Father I come to me,
And I will show thee what I've got for thee.'
So he came, and she gave him a gold watch.
Then she shouted down—
'Sister! Sister! come to me,
And I will show thee what I've got for thee.'
So she came, and she gave her a pair of boots.
Then she shouted down
'Mother! Mother! come to me,
And I will show thee what I've got for thee.'
The mother, who thought the others had got such nice things, put her head right up the chimney, when the big block of marble came down and killed her.
Then Orange came down and lived with her father and Lemon happily ever after."
Cf. The story of the child that was murdered at Lincoln by a Jewess. See a fragment of it quoted in Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes, p. 276[1]. Shouting down the chimney occurs in several Lapp stories; also in the Finnish stories of the "Wonderful Birch" and "The Girl who seeks her Brothers," where songs somewhat like the above-mentioned occur. Also Cf. Vernaleken, "Moriandle and Sugar-kandle," and Naake, Slavonic Tales, "Story of the little Simpleton." A story of a somewhat similar kind is current in Sweden. See Hofberg.
- ↑ See also Folk-Lore Record, 1879, "Old Ballad Folk-Lore," pp. 110, 111.
