Essentially a book about children and their picturesque and innocent, though often apparently meaningless, frolics, by the young in the land, I am assured, it will be received with open arms. From the "children of larger growth"--those who were once young and have delight in remembering the fact--the welcome, if less boisterous, should be not less sincere. Commend to me on all occasions the man or woman who, "with lyart haffets thin and bare," can sing with the poet-- "Och hey! gin I were young again, Ochone! gin I were young again; For chasin' bumbees owre the plain Is just an auld sang sung again." ROBERT FORD. 287 ~Onslow Drive~, ~Dennistoun~, ~Glasgow~. CONTENTS. PAGE ~Rhymes of the Nursery~, 9 ~Counting-out Rhymes~, 38 ~Children's Rhyme-Games~, 55 "Merry-ma-Tanzie," 56 "The Mulberry Bush," 57 "A Dis, a Dis, a Green Grass," 58 "Looby Looby," 59 "I Dree I Droppit it," 60 "Bab at the Bowster," 61 "The Wadds," 63 "The Wadds and the Wears," 65 "The Widow of Babylon," 68 "London Bridge," 69 "The Jolly Miller," 70 "Willie Wastle," 70 "Oats and Beans and Barley," 71 "Hornie Holes," 72 "The Craw," 73 "Neevie-neevie-nick-nack," 73 "Blind Man's Buff," 74 "Water Wallflower," 75 "The Emperor Napoleon," 75 "A' the Birdies i' the Air," 76 "Through the Needle-e'e, Boys," 76 "King Henry," 77 "The Blue Bird," 78 "When I was a Young Thing," 78 "Carry my Lady to London," 79 "A, B, C," 80 "My Theerie and my Thorie," 80 "Glasgow Ships," 81