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The next incident, No. 10 of the analysis, goes through all the games

except one (West Grinstead), where the very obvious corruption of

"willows" for "windows" occurs. This incident takes us to the houses of

the village; and thus the two lines show us a procession, first, going

round outside the boundary of the village, and, secondly, proceeding in

serpentine fashion through the houses. Incident 13 has a few variations

which do not point to anything more than verbal alteration, due to the

changes which have occurred in the conception of the game. Incidents 17

to 22 are not constant to all the versions, and their variations are of

an unimportant character. Incident 27 is an important element in the

game. The prevalence of London as the place of assignation is probably

due to the influence of that city in the popular mind; but the real

significance seems to be that the lover-husband follows his bride to her

own village. In only two versions is this incident varied (No. 28) to

indicate that the husband took his wife with him, and only three

versions have dropped out the incident altogether.

Abnormal incidents occur in only seven versions, and they are not of

great significance. The Lincolnshire and Sporle versions have a line of

general introduction (No. 1) before the game proper begins. Incidents 8

and 9 occur only in the Lincolnshire version, and do not disturb the

general movement beyond indicating that the game has become, or is

becoming, an indoor game. Incident 21 is obviously a modern line. Nos.

26 and 31 suggest a chase after a fugitive pair which, as they do not

occur in other versions, must be considered as later introductions,

belonging, however, to the period when runaway marriages were more

frequent than they are now, and thus taking us back to, at least, the

beginning of this century; while the significant and pretty variant No.

32 shows that the game has lost touch with the actual life of the

people. No. 30 in the Fraserburgh version has a suspicious likeness to a

line in the American song "I'm off to Charlestown," but as it occurs

only in this one version it cannot count as an important element in the

history of the game.

(_e_) Miss Matthews notes a Forest of Dean version. The children form a

ring, singing, "Round and round the valley, where we have been before,"

while one child walks round the outside. Then they stand with uplifted

hands, joined together, and sing, "In and out of the windows, as we have

done before," while the child threads her way in and out of the ring.

Then they sing, "Stand and face your lover, as we have done before;" the

child then stands in the centre of the ring and faces some one, whom she

afterwards touches, and who succeeds her. A version from North

Derbyshire (Mr. S. O. Addy) is practically the same as the Tean, North

Staffs. version, except that the third verse is "Run to meet your

lover," instead of "Stand and face your lover." The first child, during

the singing of the third verse, walks round outside the ring, and

touches one she chooses, who then runs away. While the fourth verse is

being sung she is chased and caught, and the game begins again with the

second child walking round the village. So far as Lancashire is

concerned, Miss Dendy says, "I have no good evidence as yet that it is a

Lancashire play. I think it has been imported here by board-school

mistresses from other counties."

(_f_) The burden of this game-rhyme is undoubtedly the oldest part that

has been preserved to modern times. It runs through all the versions

without exception, though variations in the other lines is shown by the

analysis to occur. The words of the line, "As we have done before,"

convey the idea of a recurring event, and inasmuch as that event is

undoubtedly marriage, it seems possible to suggest that we have here a

survival of the periodical village festival at which marriages took

place. If the incidents in the game compare closely with incidents in

village custom, the necessary proof will be supplied, and we will first

examine how far the words of the rhyme and the action of the game supply

us with incidents; and, secondly, how far these incidents have been kept

up in the village custom.

There is nothing in the words to suggest that the incidents which the

game depicts belong to a fixed time, but it is an important fact that

they are alluded to as having previously taken place. If, then, we have

eventually to compare the game with a fixed periodical custom, we can

at least say that the rhymes, though not suggesting this, do not oppose

it.

This game belongs to the group of "custom games." The first

characteristic which suggests this is that the children, who join hands

and form a circle, are always stationary, and do not move about as in

dance games. To the minds of the children who play the game, each child

in the circle represents something other than human beings, and this

"something" is indicated in the first and second verses, which speak of

the "windows," of houses, and a journey round "a village." In this game,

too, the children, who thus represent a village, also act as "chorus,"

for they describe in the words they sing the various actions of those

who are performing their parts, as in the game of "Old Roger."

With this evidence from the game itself, without reference to anything

outside, it is possible to turn to custom to ascertain if there is

anything still extant which might explain the origin of the game.

Children copy the manners and customs of their elders. If they saw a

custom periodically and often practised with some degree of ceremonial

and importance, they would in their own way act in play what their

elders do seriously.

Such a custom is the perambulation of boundaries, often associated with

festive dances, courtship, and marriage. More particularly indicative of

the origin of the game is the Helston Furry Dance--"About the middle of

the day the people collect together to dance hand-in-hand round the

streets, to the sound of the fiddler playing a particular tune, which

they continue to do till it is dark. This is called a 'Faddy.' In the

afternoon the gentility go to some farmhouse in the neighbourhood to

drink tea, syllabab, &c, and return in a morrice-dance to the town,

where they form a Faddy and dance through the streets till it is dark,

claiming a right of going through any person's house, in at one door and

out at the other."--_Gent. Mag. Lib. Manners and Customs_, p. 217. "In

one, if not more, of the villages," says Mr. Gregor (_Folk-lore N.E.

Scotland_, p. 98), "when the marriage takes place in the home of the

bride the whole of the marriage party makes the circuit of the

village." In South-Eastern Russia, on the eve of marriage the bride

goes the round of the village, throwing herself on her knees before the

head of each house. In an Indian custom the bride and bridegroom are

conveyed in a particular "car" around the village.--Gomme, _Folk-lore

Relics_, pp. 214, 215. According to Valle, a sixteenth century

traveller, "At night the married couples passed by, and, according to

their mode, went round about the city with a numerous company."--Valle's

_Travels in India_ (Hakluyt Soc.), p. 31.[6]

In these marriage customs there is ample evidence to suggest that the

Indo-European marriage-rite contained just such features as are

represented in this game, and the changes from rite to popular custom,

from popular custom to children's game, do much to suggest consideration

of the evidence that folk-lore supplies.

This game is not mentioned by Halliwell or Chambers, nor, so far as I am

aware, has it been previously printed or recorded in collections of

English games. It appears in America as "Go round and round the Valley"

(Newell, _Games_, p. 128).

See "Thread the Needle."

[6] Among the Ovahererí tribe, at the end of the festive time, the

newly-married pair take a walk to visit all the houses of the

"Werst." The husband goes first and the wife closely follows

him.--_South African Folk-lore Journal_, i. 50.

Round and Round went the Gallant Ship

I. Round and round went the gallant, gallant ship,

And round and round went she;

Round and round went the gallant, gallant ship,

Till she sank to the bottom of the sea, the sea, the sea,

Till she sank to the bottom of the sea.

All go down as the ship sinks.

--Cullen (Rev. W. Gregor).

II. Three times round goes our gallant ship,

And three times round went she;

Three times round went our gallant ship,

Then she sank to the bottom of the sea.

As the players all "bob" down they cry out "the sea, the sea, the sea."

--Aberdeen Training College (Rev. W. Gregor).

Round Tag

A large ring is formed, two deep, with wide right and left hand

intervals between each couple, and one child stands in the ring and

another outside. When the play begins the child in the middle runs and

places herself in front of one of the groups of two, thus forming a

group of three. Thereupon the third child, that is, the one standing on

the outer ring, has to run and try to get a place in front of another

two before the one outside the ring can catch her. Then she who is at

the back of this newly-formed three must be on the alert not to be

caught, and must try in her turn to gain a front place. The one catching

has all along to keep outside the ring, but those trying to escape her

may run in and out and anywhere; whoever is caught has to take the

catcher's place.--Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews).

[Illustration]

This game, called "Short Terrace" at East Kirkby, is played in the same

way as that described from Sporle, with the exception that three players

stand together instead of one in the centre to start the game. The

player who stands immediately outside the circle is called the

"clapper;" it is his object to _hit_ the player who stands behind two

others.--East Kirkby, Lincolnshire (Miss K. Maughan).

"Twos and Threes" is the name by which this game is known in Hampshire,

Monton in Lancashire (Miss Dendy), and other places. It is played in

precisely the same manner as at Sporle.

Halliwell's _Dictionary_ says of this game as played in Devon, "A round

game, in which they all stand in a ring."

See "Tag."

Rounders

This is a boys' game. A round area is marked out by boundary sticks, and

at a chosen point of the boundary the base is fixed. This is marked out

independently of the boundary, but inside it. Sides are then chosen. One

side are the "ins," and strike the ball; the other side are the "outs,"

and deliver the ball, scout, and endeavour to get their opponents, the

"ins," out as soon as possible. The ball (an indiarubber one) is

delivered by the "feeder," by pitching it to a player, who stands inside

the base armed with a short stick. The player endeavours to strike the

ball as far away as possible from the fielders or scouts. As soon as the

ball is struck away he runs from the base to the first boundary stick,

then to the second, and so on. His opponents in the meantime secure the

ball and endeavour to hit him with it as he is running from stage to

stage. If he succeeds in running completely round the boundary before

the ball is returned it counts as one rounder. If he is hit he is out of

the game. He can stay at any stage in the boundary as soon as the ball

is in hand, getting home again when the next player of his own side has

in turn hit the ball away. When a ball is returned the feeder can bounce

it within the base, and the player cannot then run to any new stage of

the boundary until after the ball has again been hit away by another

player. If a player misses a ball when endeavouring to strike at it he

has two more chances, but at the third failure he is bound to run to the

first boundary stick and take his chance of being hit with the ball. If

a ball is caught the whole side is out at once; otherwise, the side

keeps in until either all the players have been hit out with the ball or

until the base is crowned. This can be done by bouncing the ball in the

base whenever there is no player there to receive the delivery from the

feeder. When a complete rounder is obtained, the player has the

privilege either of counting the rounder to the credit of his side, or

of ransoming one of the players who have been hit out, who then takes

his part in the game as before. When all but one of the players are

"out," this last player in hitting the ball must hit it away so as to be

able to make a rounder, and return to the base before his opponents get

back the ball to crown the base.

An elaborate form of this game has become the national game of the

United States.

Rounds

See "Roundabout."

Row-chow-Tobacco

See "Bulliheisle," "Eller Tree," "Snail Creep," "Wind up the Bush

Faggot."

Rowland-Ho

A Christmas game.--Halliwell's _Dictionary_.

Rumps

A game with marbles [undescribed].--Dickinson's _Cumberland Glossary_.

Rusty

A boys' game, exactly the same as "Ships."--Addy's _Sheffield Glossary_.

Sacks

A number of children place their closed fists on top of one another in a

pile. The leader asks, pointing to the topmost fist, "What's in that

sack?" Answer, Potatoes, or anything the child chooses. The leader tips

it off with her finger, saying, "Knock it away," and so to the very

undermost fist, when she asks, "What's in this sack?" The answer must

be, "Bread and cheese;" and then the following dialogue takes place:--

Where's my share?

The mouse eat it.

Where's the mouse?

The cat killed it.

Where's the cat?

The dog worried it.

Where's the dog?

The cow tossed it.

Where's the cow?

The butcher killed it.

Where's the butcher?

Behind the door.

And who ever speaks the first word shall get a sound round box on the

ear.--Co. Cork (Mrs. B. B. Green).

Saddle the Nag

An equal number of players is chosen on each side. Two chiefs are chosen

by lot. One of the chiefs takes his stand by a wall, and all his party

bend their backs, joined in a line. One of the opposite side leaps on

the back of the one farthest from the one standing at the wall, and

tries to make his way over the backs of all the stooping boys, up to the

one standing. Those stooping move and wriggle to cast him off, and if

they succeed in doing so, he stands aside till all his side have tried.

When all have tried and none succeed in crowning the one standing, the

sides change. If one or more succeed, then each such has a second chance

before the sides change. Each side commonly has six chances. The side

that succeeds in oftenest touching the chief's head wins the game.--Dyke

(Rev. W. Gregor).

See "Skin the Goatie."

Saggy

A game with marbles [undescribed].--Dickinson's _Cumberland Glossary_.

Sailor Lad

A sailor lad and a tailor lad,

And they were baith for me;

I wid raither tack the sailor lad,

And lat the tailor be.

What can a tailor laddie dee

Bit sit and sew a cloot,

When the bonnie sailor laddie

Can turn the ship aboot.

He can turn her east, and he can turn her west,

He can turn her far awa';

He aye tells me t' keep up my hairt

For the time that he's awa'.

I saw 'im lower his anchor,

I saw 'im as he sailed;

I saw 'im cast his jacket

To try and catch a whale.

He skips upon the planestanes,

He sails upon the sea;

A fancy man wi' a curly pow

Is aye the boy for me,

Is aye the boy for me;

A fancy man wi' a curly pow

Is aye the boy for me.

He daurna brack a biscuit,

He daurna smoke a pipe;

He daurna kiss a bonnie lass

At ten o'clock at night.

I can wash a sailor's shirt,

And I can wash it clean;

I can wash a sailor's shirt,

And bleach it on the green.

Come a-rinkle-tinkle, fal-a-la, fal-a-la,

Aboun a man-o'-war.

--Rosehearty (Rev. W. Gregor).

A circle is formed by joining hands. They dance round and sing.

Sometimes at Rosehearty two play the game by the one taking hold of the

other's left hand with her right.

Sally go Round the Moon

Sally go round the moon,

Sally go round the stars;

Sally go round the moon

On a Sunday afternoon.

--Deptford, Kent (Miss E. Chase).

Three or more girls take hold of hands, forming a ring; as they spin

round they sing the lines. They then reverse and run round in the other

direction with an _O!_ or repeat over again.

This game is mentioned in the _Church Reformer_, by the Rev. S. D.

Headlam, as one being played at Hoxton, but no account of how the game

is played is given.

Sally Water

[Music]

--Yorkshire (Mr. H. Hardy).

[Music]

--Lancashire (Miss Dendy).

[Music]

--Enborne (Miss Kimber).

[Music]

--Welford (Mrs. Stephen Batson).

[Music]

--Liverpool (Mr. C. C. Bell).

[Music]

--Beddgelert, Wales (Mrs. Williams).

[Music]

--Nottingham (Miss Youngman).

I. Sally, Sally Water,

Sprinkle in the pan;

Rise, Sally, rise, Sally,

And choose a young man.

Choose [or bow] to the east,

Choose [or bow] to the west,

And choose [or bow to] the pretty girl [or young man]

That you love best.

[Another version has:

Choose for the best one,

Choose for the worst one,

Choose for the pretty girl

That you love best.]

And now you're married I wish you joy;

First a girl and then a boy;

Seven years after son and daughter;

And now, young people, jump over the water.

--Symondsbury, Dorsetshire (_Folk-lore Journal_, vii. 207).

II. Sally, Sally Walker, sprinkle water in the pan;

Rise, Sally, rise, Sally, and seek your young man;

Turn to the east and turn to the west,

And choose the one that you love best.

Now you're married we wish you joy,

First a girl and then a boy,

Seven years after a son and a daughter,

So young lovers kiss together.

--Chudleigh Knighton, Devon (Henderson's _Folk-lore of the Northern

Counties_, p. 27).

III. Sally, Sally Water,

Sprinkle in the pan;

Hi! Sally; Ho! Sally,

Choose a young man;

Choose for the best,

Choose for the worst,

Choose for the very one you love best.

Now you're married we wish you joy,

First a girl and then a boy,

Seven years after sister and brother;

Kiss each other and come out of the water.

--Somersetshire, _Notes and Queries_, 8th series, i. 249 (Miss R. H.

Busk).

IV. Sally Waters, Sally Waters, come sprinkle in the pan;

Rise, Sally; rise, Sally, for a young man!

Choose for the best, choose for the worst,

Choose for the very one you love the best.

Now you are married, we wish you joy;

First a girl and then a boy,

Seven years afterwards son and daughter;

Pray, young couple, kiss together.

--London version (Miss Dendy).

V. Sally, Sally Walker,

Sprinkling in a pan;

Rise, Sally; rise, Sally,

For a young man.

Come, choose from the east,

Come, choose from the west,

Come, choose out the very one

That you love best.

Now there's a couple

Married in joy;

First a girl,

And then a boy.

Now you're married;

You must obey

Every word

Your husband says.

Take a kiss

And walk away,

And remember the promise

You've made to-day.

--Fochabers (Rev. W. M'Gregor).

VI. Sally, Sally Waters,

Sprinkled in the pan;

Rise, Sally, rise, Sally,

For a young man,

Choose the best and choose the worst,

And choose the prettiest you love best.

--Welford, Berks (Mrs. Stephen Batson).

VII. Sally, Sally Wallflower,

Sprinkled in the pan, &c.,

Now you're married, &c.,

On the carpet you shall kneel, &c.

--_Notes and Queries_, 5th series, iii.

VIII. Sallie, Sallie Waters,

Sprinkled in a pan;

Rise, Sallie, rise, Sallie,

Choose a young man.

Choose the best, and

Choose the worst, and

Choose the one that you love best.

Now that you are married,

I'm sure we wish you joy,

First a girl, then a boy;

Seven years after,

Son and daughter,

Pray, young couple, come kiss together.

--Enborne, Berks; Marlborough, Wilts; Lewes, Sussex (Miss Kimber).

IX. Sally, Sally Waters,

Sprinkle in a pan;

Cry, Sally, cry, Sally,

For a young man.

Come choose the worst,

Come choose the best,

Come choose the young man

That you like the best.

And now you're married

I wish yer good joy,

Every year a girl and a boy.

Come love one another

Like sister and brother,

And kiss together for joy.

Clash the bells,

Clash the bells.

--Maxey, Northants; and Suffolk (Rev. W. D. Sweeting).

X. Sally, Sally Water, sprinkle in the pan;

Rise, Sally, rise, Sally, for a young man.

Pick and choose, but choose not me,

Choose the fairest you can see.

Now Sally is married, we wish her much joy,

First a girl and then a boy;

Seven years after a son and a daughter,

Please to come and kiss together.

--Summertown, Oxford (A. H. Franklin in _Midland Garner_, N. S. ii. 32).

XI. Sally, Sally Waters, sprinkle in the pan;

Rise, Sally, rise, Sally, for a young man.

Choose for the worst, choose for the best,[7]

Choose for the prettiest that you loves best.

Now you are married, &c.

--Longcot, Berkshire, (Miss J. Barclay).

XII. Sally, Sally Waters,

Sprinkle in a pan;

Cry, Sally, cry, Sally,

For a young man.

Rise up, Sally,

Dry your tears;

Choose the one you love the best,

Sally, my dear.

--Earls Heaton, Yorks. (Herbert Hardy).

XIII. Sally, Sally Water, sprinkle in the pan,

Is not ---- a nice young man? and

Is not (girl's name) as good as he?

They shall be married if they can agree.

I went to her house and I dropped a pin,

I asked if Mrs. ---- was in.

She is not within, she is not without,

She is up in the garret walking about.

Down she comes as white as milk,

With a rose in her bosom as soft as silk.

She off with her glove and showed me her ring,

To-morrow, to-morrow the wedding begins.

--Surrey (_Folk-lore Record_, v. 88).

XIV. Sally, Sally Walker, come sprinkle your pan,

For down in the meadows there's a nice young man;

Rise up, Sally, don't look sad,

For you shall have a husband, good or bad.

On the carpet you shall kneel

Till the grass grows round your feet;

Stand up straightly on your feet,

And choose the one you love so sweet.

Now Sally's married, we wish her joy,

First a girl, then a boy;

If it's a boy, we'll buy him a cap,

If it's a girl, we will buy her a hat.

If one won't do, will buy you two,

If two won't do, will buy you three,

If three won't do, will get you four,

If four won't do, will get no more,

So kiss and shake hands, and come out.

--Tong, Shropshire (Miss C. F. Keary).

XV. Sally, Sally Water, come sprinkle your pan (_or_ plants),

For down in the meadows there lies a young man.

Rise, Sally, rise, and don't you look sad,

For you shall have a husband, good or bad.

Choose you one, choose you two,

Choose the fairest you can see!

The fairest one as I can see,

Is _Jenny Wood_, pray come to me!

Now you are married, I wish you good joy,

First a girl and then a boy;

Seven years now, and seven to come,

Take her and kiss her, and send her off home.

--_Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 509.

XVI. Sally, Sally Water (or Slauter),

Come sprinkle in your can,

Why do you get married

To a foolish young man?

Pick the worst, and pick the best,

And pick the one that you love best.

. . . . .

To a nice young man

. . . . .

So kiss and say good-bye.

[My informant forgets the rest.]

--Nottinghamshire (Miss M. Peacock).

XVII. Sally Water, Sally Water,

Come sprinkle your can,

Why don't you rise, Sally,

And choose a young man?

Come choose of the wisest,

Come choose of the best,

Come choose of the young man

That lies in your breast.

--Gloucestershire and Warwickshire (Northall, 378).

XVIII. Sally Water, Sally Water,

Come, sprinkle your can;

Who do you lie mourning,

All for a young man?

Come, choose of the wisest,

Come, choose of the best,

Come, choose of the young men

The one you love best.

--Addy's _Sheffield Glossary_.

XIX. Sally, Sally Salter,

Sprinkle in some water;

Knock it in a mortar,

And send it in a silver saucer

To ---- ---- door.

--Stixwould, Lincolnshire, seventy years ago (Miss M. Peacock).

XX. Sally Water, Sally Water,

Springin' in a pan;

Cry, Sally, cry, Sally,

For a young man;

Choose for the worst 'un,

Choose for the best 'un,

Choose the little gell 'at you love the best.

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