>> It is certainly possible to construct a story

> Yes. But that does not show that a ballad once included both parts.

> Only that it might have.

> Without an actual "full" text, or an early description of one, it's only conjecture.

Certainly. As I said, You pays your money …

This is another instance, as with Child 42 and 85, where it might make more sense to classify ballads like folk tales, by listing the elements present in each instance, than to number them as discrete entities.