Toppe," date 15--(?)--Dice and
Pitch-and-Toss--"Dab a Prin in my Lottery Book"--"A'
the Birds of the Air"--Hop Scotch--"Zickety, dickety,
dock"--"All good Children go to Heaven"--"Mary at the
Cottage Door."

MARRIAGE GAMES--"If ever I Marry I'll Marry a Maid,"
1557 A.D.--London Street Games--A Wedding--"Choose one,
choose two, choose the nearest one to you"--"Rosy
Apple, Lemon, and Pear"--The King of the
Barbarines--"I've got Gold and I've got Silver"--A
Lancashire Round Game--"Fol th' riddle, I do, I do, I
do"--Round Game of the Mulberry Bush--"Pray, Mr. Fox,
what time is it?"--"Mother, buy me a Milking
Can"--"Here comes a Poor Sailor from Botany Bay"--"Can
I get there by Candle-light?" 58

II. NURSERY GAMES--A Game for a Wet Day--"Cows and Horses walk
on four legs"--A Game nearly 300 years old--"There were
two birds sitting on a stone"--A B C Game--"Hi diddle
diddle"--"I Apprentice my Son"--An Armenian Child's
Game, "Jack's Alive"--Russian Superstition 80

III. JEWISH RHYMES--"A kid, a kid my father bought for two
pieces of money--a kid! a kid!"--"The house that Jack
built"--The Scotch version, "There was an old woman
swept her house and found a silver penny"--The Chad
Gadya--"Who knoweth One" 89

IV. An ancient English Rhyme--"A Frog who would a-wooing go,"
the version of same sung in Henry VIII.'s reign--Songs
of London Boys in Tudor times--"Quoth John to
Joan"--"Good parents in good manners do instruct their
child"--"Tom a Lin"--"Bryan O'Lynn"--Four songs sung by
children in Elizabeth's reign--"We'll have a Wedding at
our House" 100

V. CAT RHYMES--"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat"--"Ten little mice sat down
to spin"--"The rose is red, the grass is green"--"I Love
little Pussy"--"Three Cats sat by the Fireside"--"There
was a Crooked Man"--"Ding dong bell"--Cat tale of Dick
Whittington 112

VI. A Cradle Song of the first century, "Sleep, O son, sleep" 117

VII. JACK RHYMES 123

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