dear,
Present to me your hand;
We are roaming in succession
To some far and distant land.

BOUQUET PATCH (PAWPAW PATCH), ii: An endless, rimeless improvisation,
beginning:

Where, oh where, is pretty little Mary?
Way down yonder in the bouquet patch.

GO IN AND OUT AT THE WINDOW: An endless, rimeless improvisation
containing the dance calls in order.

XVIII.

_This group contains paralipomena which baffle individual description.
It embraces counting-out rimes, jigs, lullabies, child-rimes,
nonsense-rimes, and ditties. They are always rhythmical, and usually
rimed, varying in length from a couplet to an endless improvisation. The
following list is an attempt to name them:_

Cluck, Old Hen; Frog in the Meadow; Old as Moses; When I was a Little
Boy; Sugar in the Gourd; I'll Build My Nest in a Tree; Old Dan Tucker;
Possum up a Gum-stump; By-o Baby Bunting; Peter Punkin-eater; Chickamy
Corney-crow; William Trimmel Tram: Shidepoke and Crane; Johnny's out on
Picking; Sourwood Mountain; Frisky Jim; Ground-hog; Tarry; Granny, Will
Your Dog Bite?; Old Sam Simons; Beefsteak When I'm Hungry; Gray Goose;
Needle and Thread; It Rained so Hard; I'll Never get Drunk Anymore; Rock
Island; Show Me the Way to Go Home; Sometimes Drunk and Sometimes Sober;
Apples in the Summertime; Coony has a Ringy Tail: I Went Down Town;
Sally in the Garden; Old Dad; Coon-dog; Rabbit Walked; Shoo, Old Lady,
Shine!; Hook and Line; Day I'm Gone; Churn Your Buttermilk; Kalamazine;
Hang Down Your Head; I Feel; Shoot Your Dice; Sara Jane; Whickum-whack;
Up to the Court-house; Come a High Jim Along; Had an Old Mare; To
Rowser's; Roll the Old Chariot Along; Shady Grove; Whangho; Cripple
Creek.

INDEX

After the Ball, 29

All on the Banks of Clauda, 24

A-moaning and Groaning, 36

Annie and Willie, 27

Annie Willow, 27

Apples in the Summertime, 38

Apprentice Boy, The, 10

Arkansas Traveller, 15

Assassination of J. B. Marcum, The, 18

Auxville Love, The, 24

Avonia, 21

Awful Wedding, The, 26

Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The, 8

Barbara Allen, 8

Barney and Kate, 21

Battle of Gettysburg, 14

Beauchamp's Confession, 16

[Bedroom Window], 23

Beefsteak When I'm Hungry, 38

Beneath the Arch of London Bridge, 10

Betsy Brown, 12

Betty Stout, 16

Billy Boy, 30