MARRIAGE GAMES--"If ever I Marry I'll Marry a Maid," 1557 A.D.--London Street Games--A Wedding--"Choose one, choose two, choose the nearest one to you"--"Rosy Apple, Lemon, and Pear"--The King of the Barbarines--"I've got Gold and I've got Silver"--A Lancashire Round Game--"Fol th' riddle, I do, I do, I do"--Round Game of the Mulberry Bush--"Pray, Mr. Fox, what time is it?"--"Mother, buy me a Milking Can"--"Here comes a Poor Sailor from Botany Bay"--"Can I get there by Candle-light?" 58 II. NURSERY GAMES--A Game for a Wet Day--"Cows and Horses walk on four legs"--A Game nearly 300 years old--"There were two birds sitting on a stone"--A B C Game--"Hi diddle diddle"--"I Apprentice my Son"--An Armenian Child's Game, "Jack's Alive"--Russian Superstition 80 III. JEWISH RHYMES--"A kid, a kid my father bought for two pieces of money--a kid! a kid!"--"The house that Jack built"--The Scotch version, "There was an old woman swept her house and found a silver penny"--The Chad Gadyâ--"Who knoweth One" 89 IV. An ancient English Rhyme--"A Frog who would a-wooing go," the version of same sung in Henry VIII.'s reign--Songs of London Boys in Tudor times--"Quoth John to Joan"--"Good parents in good manners do instruct their child"--"Tom a Lin"--"Bryan O'Lynn"--Four songs sung by children in Elizabeth's reign--"We'll have a Wedding at our House" 100 V. CAT RHYMES--"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat"--"Ten little mice sat down to spin"--"The rose is red, the grass is green"--"I Love little Pussy"--"Three Cats sat by the Fireside"--"There was a Crooked Man"--"Ding dong bell"--Cat tale of Dick Whittington 112 VI. A Cradle Song of the first century, "Sleep, O son, sleep" 117 VII. JACK RHYMES 123 VIII. RIDDLE MAKING--German riddle of "Seven White and Seven Black Horses"--Greek riddle of the Two Sisters; another of "The year, months, and days"--"Old Mother Needle"--"Purple, yellow, red, and green"--"As round as an Apple"--"Humpty Dumpty"--The Phœnix fable--"Ladybird! ladybird! fly away home" 127 IX. NURSERY CHARMS--"When a twister twisting twists him a twist"--An Essex Charm for a Churn--"Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John" Charms.