Traditional Game
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共 29 段- A juvenile game in Newcastle and the neighbourhood. A circle
- Each boy provides himself with a button. One of the boys lay
- This is a slate game, and two or more children play. One wri
- (_c_) This is a well-known game. It is also called "Buffy Gr
- (_b_) Kelly, in his _Scottish Proverbs_, p. 325, says, "'Tin
- (_b_) This game is played with horse chestnuts threaded on a
- (_c_) Selden, in his _Table Talk_, thus refers to this game:
- The analysis shows that the majority of the variants retain
- A ring of chairs is formed, and the players sit on them. A p
- This game is general. Mr. Emslie describes the London versio
- I've lost the key of the garden gate,
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- --Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent (Miss A. A. Keary).
- One boy stands with his eyes bandaged and his hands against
- In the second plan (fig. 2) the game is:--Throw stone into N
- Holloway (_Dict. of Provincialisms_) says that the game is c
- (_d_) The words of all the versions are sufficiently similar
- O very well, ladies.
- (_c_) Versions of this game, almost identical with the Leice
- VI. Mr. Monday was a good man,
- I. Yonder stands a lovely lady,
- [Other verses commence with one of the following lines, and
- Now we dance looby, looby, looby;
- Twice about, and then we fa',
- This is apparently the same game as the well-known "I love m
- Here we go round the mulberry bush,
- "In that part of Warwickshire where Shakespeare was educated
- The question is, How does this theory of the origin of the g