Golden Glove, The (Dog and Gun) [Laws N20]

DESCRIPTION: A lady is to be married, but finds she prefers the farmer who is to give her away. She pleads illness and
calls off the wedding. She claims she has lost a glove (which she placed on the farmer's land) and will marry whoever finds it.
The rest is obvious
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1830
KEYWORDS: clothes courting marriage trick
FOUND IN: Britain(England,Scotland) US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES (17 citations):
Laws N20, "The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun)"
Belden, pp. 229-231, "Dog and Gun (The Golden Glove)" (1 text plus 2 extracts and fragments of 2 more, 1 tune)
Randolph 71, "With Her Dog and Gun" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 95-97, "With Her Dog and Gun" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 71A)
Eddy 64, "Dog and Gun" (2 texts)
Gardner/Chickering 73, "The Dog and the Gun" (1 text plus an excerpt and mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 117-118, "The Dog and Gun" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 197, "Dog and Gun" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
Chappell-FSRA 60, "The Golden Glove" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hudson 43, pp. 158-159, "The Golden Glove" (1 text, lacking the beginning explaining the reason for the lady's
behavior)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 49, "The Lady and the Glove" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 145, "The Golden Glove (or, The Dog and the Gun)" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H524, p. 328, "The Squire's Bride" (1 text, 1 (non-traditional) tune)
JHCox 121, "Dog and Gun" (1 text plus mention of 4 more, 1 tune -- but for one of the unprinted texts!)
JHCoxIIA, #20, pp. 83-84, "The Farmer and His Bride" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 147-150, "The Dog and the Gun" (2 texts, 1 tune)
DT 332, DOGGUN*
Roud #141
RECORDINGS:
Logan English, "The Lady and the Glove" (on LEnglish1 -- several verses filled in from Wyman-Brockway I)
Bradley Kincaid, "Dog and Gun" (Bluebird B-5255, 1933)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Squire
The Rich Esquire
File: LN20