ain  time to prevent my rival from carrying out  I can now ask for your daug;

    t gave . er married told ale, and ther king died of rage.

    (Monferrato)

    NOtES:

    quot;tquot; (Il pappagallo) from Comparetti, 2, Monferrato, Piedmont.

    See my remarks on tale in troduction, p. xxx-xxxi. I aken ty of doctoring ti--tese one and a tuscan one, from Pisa (1)--and I ened terruptions at ts.

    Copyrigalian Folktales Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino,

    translated by George Martin,

    Pantheon Books, New York 1980