Excerpt from Popular Tales and Fictions, Vol. 2 of 2: Their Migrations and Transformations
Having, in the preceding volume, traced through, various countries stories which, from their magical or supernatural elements, were the delight of our simple-minded ancestors in remote times, and still enchant wondering childhood, "when Love and all the world are young," we now come to treat similarly stories of common life, which have little or nothing improbable in their details, and while all of them may be true, some are certainly "founded in fact."
The Three Graziers And The Alewife.
The story of Attorney-General Noy and the Three Graziers is a well-worn "Joe Miller," and furnishes a curious instance of the migrations and modifications of popular fictions and tales.
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