Games and songs of American children, collected and compared. With a new introd. and index by Carl Withers.

Includes music.

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Introductory. The diffusion and origin of American game-rhymes -- The ballad, the dance, and the game -- May-games -- The inventiveness of children -- The conservatism of children. Love games. Knights of Spain -- Three kings -- Here comes a Duke -- Tread, tread the green grass -- I will give you a paper of pins -- There she stands, a lovely creature -- Green grow the rushes, O! -- The widow with daughters to marry -- Philander's march -- Marriage. Histories. Miss Jennia Jones -- Down she comes, as white as milk -- Little Sally Waters -- Here sits the Queen of England -- Green gravel -- Uncle John -- King Arthur was King William's son -- Little Harry Hughes and the Duke's daughter -- Barbara Allen. Playing at work. Virginia reel -- Oats, pease, beans, and barley grows -- Who'll be the binder? -- As we go round the mulberry bush -- Do, do, pity my case -- When I was a shoemaker -- Here we come gathering nuts of May -- Here I brew and here I bake -- Draw a bucket of water -- Threading the needle. Humor and satire. Soldier, soldier, will you marry me? -- Quaker courtship -- Lazy mary -- Whistle, daughter, whistle -- There were three jolly Welshman -- A Hallowe'en rhyme -- The doctor's prescription -- Old Grimes -- The Baptist game -- Trials, troubles, and tribulations -- Happy is the miller -- The miller of Gosport. Flower oracles, etc. Flower oracles -- Use of flowers in games -- Counting apple-seeds -- Rose in the garden -- There was a tree stood in the ground -- Green! Bird and beast. My household -- Frog-pond -- Bloody Tom -- Blue-birds and yellow-birds -- Ducks fly. Human life. King and Queen -- Floow your leader -- Truth -- Initation -- Judge and jury -- Three jolly sailors -- Marching to Quebec -- Sudden departure -- Scorn. With pleasures of motion. Ring around the Rosie -- Go round and round the valley -- The farmer in the dell -- The game of rivers -- Quaker, how is thee? -- Darby jig -- Right elbow in -- My master sent me -- Humpty Dumpty -- Pease porridge hot -- Rhymes for a race -- Twine the garland -- Hopping-dance. Mirth and jest. Club fist -- Robin's alive -- Laughter games -- Bachelor's kitchen -- The church and the steeple -- What color? -- Beetle and wedge -- Present and advise -- Genteel lady -- Beast, bird, or fish -- Wheel of fortune -- Catches -- Intery mintery -- Redeeming forfeits -- Old Mother Tipsy-toe -- Who stole the Cardinal's hat? Guessing games. Odd or even -- Hul gul -- How many fingers? -- Right or left -- Under which fingers? -- Comes, it comes -- Hold fast my gold ring -- My Lady Queen Anne -- The wandering dollar -- Thimble in sight. Games of chase. How many miles to Babylon? -- Hawk and chickens -- Tag -- Den -- I spy -- Sheep and wolf -- Blank and ladder -- Blind-man's buff -- Witch in the jar -- Prisoner's base -- Defence of the castle -- Lil Lil -- Charley Barley -- Milking-pails -- Stealing grapes -- Stealing sticks -- Hunt the squirrel. Certain games of very little girls. Sail the ship -- Three around -- Iron gates -- Charley over the water -- Frog in the sea -- Defiance -- My Lady's wardrobe -- Housekeeping -- A march -- Rhymes for tickling. Ball, and similar sports. The "times" of sports -- Camping the ball -- Hand-ball -- Stool-ball -- Call-ball -- Haley-over -- School-ball -- Wicket -- Hockey -- Roll-ball -- Hat-ball -- Corner-ball -- Base-ball -- Marbles -- Cat -- Cherry-pits -- Buttons -- Hop-scotch -- Duck on a rock -- Mumblety-peg -- Five-stones. Rhymes for counting out. Counting rhymes. Mythology. London Bridge -- Open the gates -- Weighing -- Colors -- Old witch -- The Ogree's coop -- Tom Tidler's ground -- Dixie's land -- Ghost in the cellar -- The enchanted princess -- The sleeping beauty. Aftermath. Tread the green grass -- Walking on the green grass -- Walking on the levy -- Swine-herders -- Three kings -- Knots of May -- Jail-keys -- Sailing at high tide -- Green grows the willow-tree -- Marriage -- The needle's eye -- Green gravel -- Under the lily-white daisies -- Miss Jenny Jones -- My pretty pink -- Quebec Town -- King William was King George's son -- Have you any bread and wine? -- Jamestown, Virginia -- Red lion -- Violet fights -- Poppy-shows -- Rhyme for jumping rope -- London Bridge -- The old woman from Barbary -- The rich widow -- Pussy wants a corner -- Birds -- Black spider -- Old witch. Appendix. Collections oc hildren's games -- Comparisons and references.