[1] Andrew Lang included it, as The Shifty Lad in The Lilac Fairy Book.
She again predicted he would hang from the bridge but gave him to the Black Gallows Bird to learn the trade.
The shifty lad went down and stirred up the cattle, sending people out; while they were gone, he stole nuts and sewed a leather hide to the thief.
The Shifty Lad stole the gold and silver while they were gone, and brought them to the thief; they split them.
When he was coming, the lad put a dirty shoe in his path; the man said that if he had the other one, he would clean this one and have a pair.
He took service with a wright who lived next to the king's storehouse, and broke into it to steal.
At the advice of the Seanagal, the king set a hogshead of pitch to catch the thief, and it caught the wright.
When it rooted about the wright's house, the lad sent the soldiers inside to eat and drink while it searched.
The king decided that he was beaten, and that he wanted so clever a man for his son-in-law.
He had all the men with the black dots put in a room, and had a child give one an apple.
They took the shaving and drone, but the child remembered them and still gave him the apple, so the shifty lad married the princess.