QUEEN ANNE.

Queen Anne, Queen Anne, who sits on her throne,

As fair as a lily, as white as a swan;

The king sends you three letters,

And begs you'll read one.

This is said by all the children but one, who represents the Queen, they

having previously hid a ball upon one of their number. The Queen

answers,

I cannot read one unless I read all,

So pray, ——, deliver the ball.

Naming any child she pleases. If she guesses rightly the child who has

the ball takes her place as Queen. If wrongly, the child who has the

ball says,

The ball is mine, and none of thine,

So you, proud Queen, may sit on your throne,

While we, your messengers, go and come.