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| 1.|Green gravel. |Green gravel. | -- |

| 2.| -- | -- |Around the green |

| 3.| -- | -- | -- |

| 4.| -- | -- | -- |

| 5.| -- | -- | -- |

| 7.|The fairest damsel | -- | -- |

| 8.| -- |The fairest young lady| -- |

| 9.| -- | -- |All pretty maids are |

|10.| -- | -- | -- |

|11.| -- | -- | -- |

|12.| -- | -- | -- |

|13.|Washed her, dried her,| -- | -- |

|14.| -- |Wash you in milk, |Wash them in milk, |

|15.|Wrote name in glass | -- | -- |

|16.| -- |Write name in gold pen|Write names in gold |

|17.| -- | -- | -- |

|19.| -- | -- | -- |

|20.| -- | -- | -- |

|21.| -- | -- | -- |

|22.| -- | -- | -- |

|23.|He sent letter to turn|He sent letter to turn| -- |

|24.| -- | -- |She's left off her |

|25.| -- | -- | -- |

|26.| -- | -- |Mother, is it true; |

|27.| -- | -- | -- |

|28.| -- | -- | -- |

|29.| -- | -- | -- |

|30.| -- | -- | -- |

|31.| -- | -- | -- |

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| 2.| -- | -- | -- |

| 3.| -- | -- | -- |

| 4.| -- | -- | -- |

| 5.| -- | -- | -- |

| 7.| -- |Fairest damsel ever |Fairest damsel ever |

| 8.| -- | -- | -- |

| 9.| -- | -- | -- |

|10.|Such beautiful flowers| -- | -- |

|11.| -- | -- | -- |

|12.| -- | -- | -- |

|13.| -- | -- | -- |

|14.| -- | -- | -- |

|15.| -- | -- | -- |

|16.| -- | -- | -- |

|17.| -- | -- | -- |

|19.| -- | -- | -- |

|20.| -- | -- | -- |

|21.| -- | -- | -- |

|22.| -- | -- | -- |

|24.| -- | -- | -- |

|25.| -- | -- | -- |

|26.| -- | -- | -- |

|27.| -- |True love not dead, he| -- |

|28.| -- | -- | -- |

|29.| -- | -- | -- |

|30.| -- | -- | -- |

|31.| -- | -- | -- |

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| 1.| -- | -- |Green gravels. |

| 2.| -- | -- | -- |

| 3.|Green meadows. | -- | -- |

| 4.| -- |Green grover. | -- |

| 5.| -- | -- | -- |

| 7.|Fairest damsel ever | -- | -- |

| 8.| -- |Prettiest young lady | -- |

| 9.| -- | -- | -- |

|10.| -- | -- | -- |

|11.| -- | -- |All pretty maidens are|

|12.| -- | -- | -- |

|13.| -- | -- | -- |

|14.| -- | -- | -- |

|15.| -- | -- | -- |

|16.| -- | -- | -- |

|17.| -- | -- | -- |

|18.|Sweetheart is dead. |True love is dead. | -- |

|19.| -- | -- |Except ---- she's not |

|20.| -- | -- | -- |

|21.| -- | -- | -- |

|22.| -- | -- | -- |

|24.| -- | -- | -- |

|25.| -- | -- | -- |

|26.| -- | -- | -- |

|27.| -- | -- | -- |

|28.| -- | -- | -- |

|29.| -- | -- | -- |

|30.| -- | -- | -- |

|31.| -- | -- | -- |

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| 1.|Green gravel. | -- |Green gravel. |

| 2.| -- | -- | -- |

| 3.| -- | -- | -- |

| 4.| -- | -- | -- |

| 5.| -- |Yellow gravel. | -- |

| 7.| -- | -- |Fairest damsel ever |

| 8.| -- |Fairest young lady | -- |

| 9.| -- | -- | -- |

|10.| -- | -- | -- |

|11.| -- | -- | -- |

|12.|Fine pencil as ever | -- | -- |

|13.| -- | -- | -- |

|14.| -- | -- |[Wash you in butter- |

|15.| -- | -- | -- |

|16.| -- | -- |[Write name with my |

|17.| -- | -- | -- |

|19.| -- | -- | -- |

|20.| -- | -- | -- |

|21.| -- | -- | -- |

|22.| -- | -- | -- |

|24.| -- | -- | -- |

|25.| -- | -- | -- |

|26.| -- | -- |Mother, is it true? |

|27.| -- | -- | -- |

|28.| -- | -- | -- |

|29.| -- | -- | -- |

|30.| -- | -- | -- |

|31.| -- | -- | -- |

|32.| -- | -- | -- |

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| 1.|Green gravel. |Green gravel. | -- |

| 2.| -- | -- |Round the green |

| 3.| -- | -- | -- |

| 4.| -- | -- | -- |

| 5.| -- | -- | -- |

| 6.| -- | -- | -- |

| 7.| -- | -- | -- |

| 8.| -- |Fairest young lady | -- |

| 9.| -- | -- |All pretty fair maids |

|10.|Flowers all faded, | -- | -- |

|11.| -- | -- | -- |

|12.| -- | -- | -- |

|13.| -- | -- | -- |

|14.| -- | -- |Wash them in milk, |

|15.| -- | -- | -- |

|16.| -- | -- | -- |

|17.| -- | -- |Write names with pen |

|18.|Sweetheart is dead. |True love is dead. | -- |

|19.| -- | -- | -- |

|20.| -- |Betsy kissing her | -- |

|21.| -- | -- |Choose the fairest |

|22.| -- | -- | -- |

|23.|I've sent letter to |[He sent letter to | -- |

|24.| -- | -- | -- |

|25.| -- |She showed her ring |Married to-day so kiss|

|26.| -- | -- | -- |

|27.| -- | -- | -- |

|28.|[Wallflowers verses | -- | -- |

|29.| -- | -- |Poor widow left alone,|

|30.| -- | -- | -- |

|31.| -- | -- | -- |

|32.| -- | -- | -- |

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|No.| Forest of Dean. | Wakefield. |

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| 1.| -- | -- |

| 2.|Round the green |Around the green |

| |gravel. |gravill. |

| 3.| -- | -- |

| 4.| -- | -- |

| 5.| -- | -- |

| 6.| -- | -- |

| 7.| -- | -- |

| 8.|All fine ladies ever | -- |

| |were seen. | |

| 9.| -- | -- |

|10.| -- | -- |

|11.| -- |All fine ladies |

| | |ashamed to be seen. |

|12.| -- | -- |

|13.| -- | -- |

|14.|Washed in milk, |Wash 'em in milk, |

| |dressed in silk. |dress in silk. |

|15.| -- | -- |

|16.| -- | -- |

|17.| -- | -- |

|18.| -- | -- |

|19.| -- | -- |

|20.| -- | -- |

|21.| -- | -- |

|22.|Last to stoop down |We'll all cow down |

| |shall be married. |together. |

|23.| -- | -- |

|24.| -- | -- |

|25.|He came to inquire, |They shall be married |

| |down she came, so off |with gold ring. |

| |with glove and on with| |

| |ring, to-morrow the | |

| |wedding begins. | |

|26.| -- | -- |

|27.| -- | -- |

|28.| -- | -- |

|29.| -- | -- |

|30.| -- |[Dancing, cuddling, |

| | |asking to marry.] |

|31.| -- |[Furnishing.] |

|32.| -- |[If a boy, he's to |

| | |have a hat; if a girl,|

| | |a ring.] |

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(_e_) Other versions, actually or practically identical with the Redhill

(Surrey) version, have been sent by Miss Blair (South Shields); Mr. H.

S. May, Ogbourne and Manton (Wilts); Mrs. Haddon (Cambridge); Mrs.

Harley (Lancashire); and Miss Burne, Platt, near Wrotham (Kent). There

are also similar printed versions in _Folk-lore Journal_, vi. 214

(Dorsetshire); _Folk-lore Record_, v. 84 (Hersham, Surrey). Northall

prints a version in his _Folk Rhymes_, 362-3, identical with No. 17. The

tune of the Platt version sent by Miss Burne, and the Ogbourne and

Manton (H. S. May), are almost identical, except the termination. This

seems to be the most general tune for the game. The Lancashire tune is

the same as the London version.

Miss Burne says of the Madeley version: "I never knew 'Green Gravel' and

'Wallflowers' played together as in this way elsewhere (I had not got

this variant when I wrote _Shropshire Folk-lore_), except at Much

Wenlock, where they reverse the two verses, and only sing _one line_

(the last) of 'Green Gravel.' But I feel sure they must have been

_meant_ to go together (see my note in _Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 510),

and I can explain them, I think. The ring of girls are dancing on the

green grass plot in the middle of an old-fashioned sixteenth-century

walled garden: each gets the news of her lover's death, and 'turns her

face to the wall,' the old token of hopeless sorrow. Then they

apostrophise the wallflowers in the border surrounding the grass plot

against the old high wall; and here another variant explains the lament

(second line)--

Wallflowers, wallflowers, growing up so high,

_We shall all be maidens_ [and so], we shall all die;

Except the youngest (who will meet with another lover), whether as an

instance of the proverbial luck of the 'youngest born,' or as a piece of

juvenile giddiness and inconstancy, I cannot say; but considering the

value set on true love and hopeless constancy in the ballad-lore, and

the special garland which distinguished the funerals of bereaved but

constant maidens, and the solemnity of betrothal in old days, the latter

seems probable, especially considering the 'for shame.'"

The incidents of _washing_ a corpse in milk and _dressing_ it in silk

occur in "Burd Ellen," Jamieson's _Ballads_, p. 125.

"Tak up, tak up my bonny young son,

Gar _wash_ him wi' the _milk_;

Tak up, tak up my fair lady,

Gar row her in the _silk_."

Green Grow the Leaves (1)

[Music]

--Earls Heaton (Mr. Hardy).

I. Green grow the leaves (or grows the ivy) round the old oak

tree,

Green grow the leaves round the old oak tree,

As we go marching on.

Bless my life I hardly knew you,

As we go marching on.

--Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire (Miss Peacock).

II. Green grow the leaves on the old oak tree,

I love the boys and the boys love me,

As we go marching on.

--Sharleston (Miss Fowler).

III. I love the boys and the boys love me,

I love the boys and the boys love me,

As we go marching home.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

As we go marching home.

The old whiskey bottle lies empty on the shelf,

As we go marching home.

--Earls Heaton, Yorkshire (Herbert).

(_b_) In Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire the game is played by the

children forming a circle and dancing round, singing. The first and

third lines are sung three times. Partners are chosen during the singing

of the last line. Miss Peacock adds, "The rest wanting, as my informant

had forgotten the game." In the Sharleston version the children march

round two by two, in a double circle, with one child in the centre,

singing the verse. At the conclusion, the children who are marching on

the inner side of the circle leave their partners and take the place of

one in front of them, while the centre child endeavours to get one of

the vacant places, the child turned out taking the place of the one in

the centre, when the game begins again. In the Earls Heaton version

there is the circle of children, with one child in the centre, who

chooses a partner after the lines have been sung.

(_c_) From this it would seem that while the Lincolnshire and

Nottinghamshire words appear to be the most complete, the action has

been preserved best at Sharleston. The acting of this version is the

same as that of "The Jolly Miller." The third variant is evidently an

imitation of the song, "John Brown."

Green Grow the Leaves (2)

[Music]

--Northants (R. S. Baker).

Green grow the leaves on the hawthorn tree,

We jangle and we wrangle and we never can agree,

But the tenor of our song goes merrily, merrily, merrily,

The tenor of our song goes merrily.

--R. S. Baker (_Northants Notes and Queries_, ii. 161).

(_b_) One couple is chosen to lead, and they go off, whither they will,

followed by a long train of youths and maidens, all singing the refrain.

Sometimes the leaders part company, and branch off to the right or left;

the others have to do the same, and not until the leaders meet can they

join again. They march arm in arm.

(_c_) Mr. R. S. Baker, who records this, says a Wellingborough lady sent

him the tune and words, and told him the game was more like a country

dance than anything else, being a sort of dancing "Follow My Leader."

Gully

A sink, or, failing that, a particular stone in the pavement was the

"Gully." Some boy chosen by lot, or one who volunteered in order to

start the game, laid his top on the ground at some distance from the

"Gully." The first player then spun his top, pegging at the recumbent

top, so as to draw it towards the "Gully." If he missed the top, he

stooped down and took up his own top by pushing his hand against it in

such a manner that the space between his first and second finger caught

against the peg and forced the top into the palm of his hand. He then

had "a go" at the recumbent top (I forget what this was called), and

sent his own top against it so as to push it towards the "Gully." If he

missed, he tried again and again, until his own top could spin no

longer. If he did not hit the top with his own while it was spinning,

his top had to be laid down and the other one taken up, and its owner

took his turn at pegging. When a spinning-top showed signs of

exhaustion, and the taking it up might kill it, and it was not very far

from the down-lying top, its owner would gently push it with his finger,

so as to make it touch the other top, and so avoid putting it into the

other's place. This was called "kissing," and was not allowed by some

players. When one player succeeded in sending the top into the "Gully,"

he took it up and fixed it by its peg into a post, mortar of a wall, or

the best place where it could be tolerably steady. Holding it by one

hand, he drove the peg of his own top as far as he could into the crown

of the victim top. This was called "taking a grudge." He then held

either his own or the victim top and knocked the other against the wall,

the object being to split the victim. He was allowed three "grudges." If

the top did not give way, the other players tried in turn. If the top

did not split, it was returned to its owner, but any boy who succeeded

in splitting it through the middle, so that the peg fell out, took

possession of the peg. I have seen a top split at the side in such a way

as to be quite useless as a top, though no peg was gained. I remember,

too, a schoolfellow of mine drawing from his pocket some seven or eight

pegs, the trophied memorials of as many tops.--London (J. P. Emslie).

See "Hoatie," "Hoges," "Peg-top."

Hairry my Bossie

This is a game of chance. The players are two, and may be boys or girls,

or a boy and a girl. The stakes may be pins, buttons, marbles, or

anything for which children gamble. One player puts a number, one, two,

three or more, of the articles to be gambled for into the hollow of the

closed hand, and says, "Hairry my bossie;" the other answers, "Knock 'im

down," upon which he puts his closed hands down with a blow on his

knees, and continues to strike them upwards and downwards on the knee,

so as to give the opponent in play an idea of the number of objects

concealed by the sound given forth. He then says, "How many blows?" and

gets the reply, "As many's goes." A guess is then made. If the guess is

correct the guesser gets the objects. If the guess is incorrect the

guesser has to make up the difference between the number guessed and the

real number. The players play alternately. This game was played for the

most part at Christmas.--Keith (Rev. W. Gregor).

(_b_) Hairry = "rob," Bossie = "a wooden bowl," commonly used for making

the leaven in baking oat-cakes, and for making "brose."

This is a very general game amongst schoolboys.

Half-Hammer

The game of "Hop-step-and-jump," Norfolk. This game is played in the

west of Sussex, but not in the east. It is played thus by two or more

boys. Each boy in his turn stands first on one leg and makes a hop, then

strides or steps, and lastly, putting both feet together, jumps. The boy

who covers the most ground is the victor.--Halliwell's _Dictionary_.

Han'-and-Hail

A game common in Dumfries, thus described by Jamieson. Two goals called

hails, or dules, are fixed on at about a distance of four hundred

yards. The two parties then place themselves in the middle between the

goals or dules, and one of the players, taking a soft elastic ball,

about the size of a man's fist, tosses it into the air, and, as it

falls, strikes it with his palm towards his antagonists. The object of

the game is for either party to drive the ball beyond the goal which

lies before them, while their opponents do all in their power to prevent

this. As soon as the ball is gowf't, that is, struck away, the opposite

party endeavour to intercept it in its fall. This is called keppan' the

ba'. If they succeed in this attempt, the player who does so is entitled

to throw the ball with all his might towards his antagonists. If he kep

it in the first bound which it makes off the ground, called a stot, he

is allowed to haunch, that is, to throw the ball by bringing his hand

with a sweep past his thigh, to which he gives a stroke as his hand

passes, and discharging the ball at the moment when the stroke is given.

If the ball be caught in the second bounce, the catcher may hoch the

ball, that is, throw it through below one of his houghs. If none of the

party catch the ball, it must be gowf't in the manner before described.

As soon as either of the parties succeed in driving the ball, or, as it

is called, hailin' the dules, the game then begins by one of the party

which was successful throwing the ball towards the opposing goal and the

other party striving to drive it back.

Hand in and Hand out

A game played by a company of young people who are drawn up in a circle,

when one of them, pitched upon by lot, walks round the band, and, if a

boy, hits a girl, or, if a girl, she strikes a boy whom she chooses, on

which the party striking and the party struck run in pursuit of each

other till the latter is caught, whose lot it then becomes to perform

the same part. A game so called was forbidden by statute of Edward

IV.--Halliwell's _Dictionary_.

See "Drop Handkerchief."

Handy-Croopen

A game in which one of the players turns his face to the wall, his hand

resting upon his back. He must continue in position until he guesses who

struck his hand, when the striker takes his place.--Orkney and Shetland

(Jamieson's _Dictionary_).

See "Hot Cockles."

Handy Dandy

I. Handy dandy,

Sugary candy--

Top or bottom?

Handy spandy,

Jack a dandy--

Which good hand will you have?

--Halliwell's _Dictionary_: _Nursery Rhymes_, p. 216.

II. Handy dandy riddledy ro--

Which will you have, high or low?

--Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_, p. 216.

III. Handy pandy,

Sugary candy,

Which will you have--

Top or bottom?

--London (A. B. Gomme).

IV. Handy pandy, Jack a dandy,

Which hand will you have?

--Burne's _Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 530.

(_b_) The hands are closed, some small article is put in one of them

behind the back of the player. The closed fists are then turned rapidly

round one another while the rhyme is being said, and they are then

placed one on top of the other. A guess is then made by any one of the

players as to which hand the object is in. If correct, the guesser

obtains the object; if incorrect, the player who performs "Handy dandy"

keeps it.

(_c_) This game is mentioned in _Piers Plowman_, p. 69 of Wright's

edition. Douce quotes an ancient MS. which curiously mentions the game

as "men play with little children at 'handye-dandye,' which hand will

you have" (ii. 167). Johnson says: "'Handy dandy,' a play in which

children change hands and places: 'See how yon justice rails upon yon

simple thief! Hark, in thine ear: change places, and, handy dandy,

which is the justice, which is the thief?" (_King Lear_, iv. 6). Malone

says, "'Handy dandy' is, I believe, a play among children, in which

something is shaken between two hands, and then a guess is made in which

hand it is retained." See Florio's _Italian Dictionary_, 1598:

"Bazzicchiare, to shake between the hands; to play 'Handy dandy.'" Pope,

in his _Memoirs of Cornelius Scriblerus_, in forbidding certain sports

to his son Martin till he is better informed of their antiquity, says:

"Neither cross and pile, nor ducks and drakes, are quite so ancient as

'Handy dandy,' though Macrobius and St. Augustine take notice of the

first, and Minutius Foelix describes the latter; but 'Handy dandy' is

mentioned by Aristotle, Plato, and Aristophanes." Browne, in

_Britannia's Pastorals_ (i. 5), also alludes to the game.

See "Neiveie-nick-nack."

Hap the Beds

A singular game, gone through by hopping on one foot, and with that foot

sliding a little flat stone out of an oblong bed, rudely drawn on a

smooth piece of ground. This bed is divided into eight parts, the two of

which at the farther end of it are called the Kail-pots. If the player

then stands at one end, and pitches the smooth stone into all the

divisions one after the other, following the same on a foot (at every

throw), and bringing it out of the figure, this player wins not only the

game, but is considered a first-rate daub at it; failing, however, to go

through all the parts so, without missing either a throw or a hop, yet

keeping before the other gamblers (for many play at one bed), still wins

the curious rustic game.--Mactaggart's _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_.

A game called "The Beds," mentioned by a writer in _Blackwood's

Magazine_, August 1821, p. 36, as played in Edinburgh when he was a boy

by girls only, is described as a game where a pitcher is kicked into

chalked divisions of the pavement, the performer being on one leg and

hopping.

See "Hop-scotch."

Hard Buttons

Several boys place one button each close together on a line. The game

consists in hitting a particular button out of this line with the nicker

without touching the others. This is generally played in London streets,

and is mentioned in the _Strand Magazine_, ii. 515.

See "Banger," "Buttons."

Hare and Hounds

A boys' game. One boy is chosen as the Hare. He carries with him a bag

filled with strips of paper. The rest of the boys are the Hounds. The

Hare has a certain time (say fifteen minutes) allowed him for a start,

and he goes across country, scattering some paper on his way in order to

indicate his track. He may employ any man[oe]uvre in order to deceive

his pursuers, but must keep up the continuity of his paper track-signs.

The Hounds follow him and try to catch him before he gets home, which is

a place agreed upon beforehand.--London (G. L. Gomme).

In Cornwall the leader, when at fault, says--

Uppa, uppa, holye! If you don't speak

My dogs shan't folly.

--Courtney (_Folk-lore Journal_, v. 73).

Other versions of this holloa are--

Whoop, whoop, and hollow!

Good dogs won't follow

Without the hare cries, Peewit.

--Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_, p. 66.

Sound your holler,

Or my little dog shan't foller.

--Northall's _English Folk Rhymes_, p. 357.

This game is played in Wales under the name of "Hunt the Fox." The Fox

has a certain time given him for a start, the other players then go

after him.--Beddgelert (Mrs. Williams).

Harie Hutcheon

A game among children, in which they hop round in a ring, sitting on

their hams.--Jamieson.

See "Curcuddie," "Cutch-a-cutchoo," "Hirtschin Hairy."

Hark the Robbers

[Music]

--Tong, Shropshire (Miss R. Harley).

I. Hark the robbers coming through,

Coming through,

Hark the robbers coming through,

My fair lady.

What have the robbers done to you,

Done to you,

What have the robbers done to you,

My fair lady?

You have stole my watch and chain,

Watch and chain,

You have stole my watch and chain,

My fair lady.

Half-a-crown you must pay,

You must pay,

Half-a-crown you must pay,

My fair lady.

Half-a-crown we cannot pay,

Cannot pay,

Half-a-crown we cannot pay,

My fair lady.

Off to prison you must go,

You must go,

Off to prison you must go,

My fair lady.

--Deptford, Kent (Miss Chase).

II. Here are the robbers coming through,

Coming through, coming through,

Here are the robbers coming through,

My fair lady.

What will the robbers do to you,

Do to you, do to you,

What will the robbers do to you,

My fair lady?

Steal your watch and break your chain,

Break your chain, break your chain,

Steal your watch and break your chain,

My fair lady.

Then they must go to jail,

Go to jail, go to jail,

Then they must go to jail,

My fair lady.

--Belfast (W. H. Patterson).

III. Hark the robbers

Coming through, coming through,

My fair lady.

They have stolen my watch and chain,

Watch and chain, watch and chain.

Off to prison they shall go,

They shall go, they shall go,

My fair lady.

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