Note 26 — INTRODUCTION (continued 2)

Then there is the fine conception, of frequent occurrence in Wlislocki’s Transylvanian-Gypsy stories, that the sun in the morning sets forth as a little child, by noon has grown to a man, and comes home at eventide weary, old, and grey.26 And this again, from ‘The Hen that laid Diamonds’ (No. 25):—