Becky: I have a Scottish version of this, which I THINK I gave to Dick G a while ago for the database: called "The Puddy and the Mouse". If it isn't there (and I can't check right now) I'll type it in. There's also one of the old ancestors of the song printed around 1609 or so in England by the young antiquary Ravenscroft. And the 19th century version that was a favourite minstrel song, "Kemo Kimo" [which has lost most of its text however]. I rather think we'll be at this for a LONG time....