Games and
Games and songs of American children
作者：Newell, William Wells, 1839-1907 [Compiler]
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共 186 题- GAMES AND SONGS
- OF
- AMERICAN CHILDREN
- COLLECTED AND COMPARED
- BY
- WILLIAM WELLS NEWELL
- NEW YORK
- HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
- Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by
- HARPER & BROTHERS,
- EDITOR'S NOTE.
- CONTENTS.
- PAGE
- EDITOR'S NOTE. v
- INTRODUCTORY.
- I. LOVE-GAMES.
- II. HISTORIES.
- III. PLAYING AT WORK.
- IV. HUMOR AND SATIRE.
- V. FLOWER ORACLES, ETC
- VI. BIRD AND BEAST.
- VII. HUMAN LIFE.
- VIII. THE PLEASURES OF MOTION.
- IX. MIRTH AND JEST.
- X. GUESSING-GAMES.
- XI. GAMES OF CHASE.
- XII. CERTAIN GAMES OF VERY LITTLE GIRLS.
- XIII. BALL, AND SIMILAR SPORTS.
- XIV. RHYMES FOR COUNTING OUT.
- 149. COUNTING RHYMES. 194
- XV. MYTHOLOGY.
- APPENDIX.
- GAMES AND SONGS
- OF
- AMERICAN CHILDREN.
- INTRODUCTORY.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- An English carol alludes to the same practice--
- IV.
- V.
- And the passage is almost too familiar to cite--
- The German proverb still is "Happy as a doll."
- FOOTNOTES:
- GAMES AND SONGS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN
- I.
- The king addresses them on departure--
- And the ambassadors reply--
- Partners having been chosen, the girl says--
- The partners now separate, the lad saying--
- The maid replies--
- But, after walking round, rejoins her partner, who welcomes her--
- The pair then address the row--
- A mate is finally chosen, and the ring sings--
- In Boston, half a century since, this ran--
- In Georgia, at the present day--
- This is not much more crude than the French equivalent.[52]
- FOOTNOTES:
- Halliwell, "Nursery Rhymes."
- The round then proceeds--
- II.
- The following is a rendering of the "Maiden's Dance:"
- The girl complying, the ballad proceeds--
- A ring of dancers who circle and sing--
- He recognizes the disguised girl--
- FOOTNOTES:
- III.
- The ring circles, singing, about a child in the centre--
- The children now pause, and sing with appropriate gestures--
- The boy selects a girl, and the two kneel in the ring, and salute--
- Or--
- Or again--
- Couples circle in a ring about a single player--
- In Massachusetts the song goes--
- A variation makes the last line--
- A ROUND.
- Or--
- FOOTNOTES:
- IV.
- A ROUND.
- A ROUND.
- In Germany the mill-wheel, as it slowly revolves, is said to exclaim--
- Then, moving more quickly--
- And at last answers very fast, and without pausing--
- FOOTNOTES:
- V.
- And boys--
- FOOTNOTES:
- VI.
- Enter child in character of duck--
- FOOTNOTES:
- VII.
- FOOTNOTES:
- VIII.
- She now stands facing one of the children, who sing--
- Taking the hand of one of the children, she salutes her--
- The "cheese" is "clapped out," and must begin again as the "farmer."
- IX.
- Another formula is given in the "Girls' Own Book:"
- FOOTNOTES:
- X.
- Another form of the question is, "Fox, fox, who's got the box?"
- FOOTNOTES:
- XI.
- The name of the game in England is "Drop-glove."
- FOOTNOTES:
- XII.
- XIII.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XIV.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XV.
- B.--
- C.--
- D.--
- Or, dialectically, "_Tickler's_ not at home."
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX
- COLLECTIONS OF CHILDREN'S GAMES.
- Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales. (Lond. 1849.)
- BELÈZE, G. Jeux des Adolescents. (Paris, 1873.)
- DUMERSAN, M. Chansons et Rondes Enfantines. (Paris, 1858.)
- GAGNON, E. Chansons Pop. du Canada. (Quebec, 1880.)
- KUHFF, P. Les Enfantines du Bon Pays de France. (Paris, 1878.)
- TARBÉ, P. Romancero de Champagne. (Reims, 1843, 5 vols.)
- ARBAUD, D. Chants Pop. de la Provence. (Aix, 1862. 2 vols.)
- MASPONS Y LABRÓS, F. Jochs de la Infancia. (Barcelona, 1874.)
- BERNONI, G. Guiochi Pop. Veneziani. (Venezia, 1874.)
- FERRARO, G. Canti Pop. di Ferrara, etc. (Ferrara, 1877.)
- IMBRIANI, V. Canti Pop. Avellinesi. (Bologna, 1874.)
- PITRÈ, G. Canti Pop. Siciliani. (Palermo, 1870-71, 2 vols.)
- WILLEMS, J. F. Oude Vlaemsche Liederen. (Gent, 1848.)
- Aus dem Kinderleben, Spiele, Reime, Räthsel. (Oldenburg, 1851.)
- Baslerische Kinder-und Volks-Reime. (Basel, 187-.)
- BIRLINGER, A. Nimm mich mit! Kinderbüchlein. (Freiburg, 1871.)
- MANNHARDT, W. Germanische Mythen. (Berlin, 1858.)
- SIMROCK, K. Das deutsche Kinderbuch. (Frankfurt am Main, 1857.)
- STOEBER, A. Elsässisches Volksbüchlein. (Strasburg, 1842.)
- ARWIDDSON, A. I. Svenska Fornsånger. (Stockholm, 1842, 3 vols.)
- DJURKLOU, G. Ur Nerike's Folkspråk och Folklif. (Örebro, 1860.)
- Danske Folkeminder. (Copenhagen, 1861.)
- THIELE, J. M. Danske Folkesagn. (Copenhagen, 1820-23, 4 vols.)
- WIGSTROM, EVA. Folkdiktning. (Copenhagen, 1880.)
- NEUS, H. Ehstnische Volkslieder. (Reval, 1850.)
- COMPARISONS AND REFERENCES.
- NOTES TO INTRODUCTION.
- NOTES TO GAMES.
- 5. Nurs. Rh., No. 479. Compare No. 31.
- 12. Compare N. and Q., 3d ser. VII. 353.
- 13. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 133. Henderson, Folk-lore, p. 26.
- 16. Chambers, p. 118.--_French_, Ch. du Camb., ii. 42.
- 18. Child, Eng. and Scot. Ballads, 1857, iii. 136.
- 19. Child, ii. 154.
- 20. _Swedish_, Arwiddson, iii. 196.
- 23. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 127. Chambers, p. 134.
- 28. Nurs. Rh., No. 287.
- 31. Compare No. 5.
- 38. For way of playing, compare No. 22.
- 43. _German_ usages, Rochholz, pp. 174-183.
- 45. Compare French of Gagnon, p. 147.
- 50. Nurs. Rh., No. 278. Compare Finnish game, Neus, p. 417.
- 56. _French_, Celnart, p. 125.
- 58. See the round in Chappell, Pop. Mus., p. 77.
- 61. Very likely the "Derision" (Risées) of Froissart.
- 71. Nurs. Rh., No. 218.
- 81. Strutt, p. 290, "Hammer and Block."
- 83. _French_.--Celnart, p. 162, "Le Chevalier Gentil."
- 90. Spectator, No. 268.--_German_, Rochholz, p. 440.
- 95. _German_, Meier, p. 124, "Under which finger sits the hare?"
- 98. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 133.
- 99. _German_, Frischbier, p. 195.
- 100. A universal game.
- 114. Folk-lore Rec., iii. 169; Chambers, p. 36. See No. 89.
- 116. Chambers, p. 127, "Scots and English."
- 124. _French_, Chabreul, p. 22, "La Toilette de Madame."
- 125. Nurs. Rh., No. 131.
- 127. _German_, Rochholz, p. 430, No. 50. See Nos. 77, 152, 153.
- 130. Games of ball played with the hand are, of course, universal.
- 138. _German_, Vernaleken, p. 10. Rochholz, p. 389.
- 139. _German_, Vernaleken, p. 11. Rochholz, p. 399.
- 143. Brand, ii. 305.
- 147. _German_, Handelmann, p. 96, "Stickmest."
- 155. _German_, Grimm, No. 15, "Hansel und Grethel."
- 158. _German_, Meier, p. 102, "Der Böse Geist."
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