London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady! What did the robber do to you? My fair lady! He broke my watch and stole my keys, My fair lady! Then off to prison he must go, My fair lady! --_Savannah, Ga._ E.--Our last version is from the convent-school of Savannah, and, although recited by a girl of American birth, is of Irish origin: London Bridge is falling down, etc. _My fair lady!_ How shall we build it up again?-- Build it up with lime and stone.-- Stone and lime would wash away.-- Build it up with iron bars.-- Iron bars would bend and break.-- Build it up with gold and silver.-- Gold and silver would be stole away.-- Get a watch to watch all night.-- Suppose the watch should fall asleep?-- Get him a pipe to smoke all night.-- Suppose the pipe should fall and break?-- Get a dog to bark all night.-- Suppose the dog should get a bone?-- Get a cock to crow all night.-- Suppose the cock should fly away?-- What has this poor prisoner done?-- He's broke my box and stole my keys.-- A hundred pounds will set him free.-- A hundred pounds he has not got.-- Off to prison he must go, _My fair lady!_[131] As to the origin of this remarkable game, our citations have already made clear that one of its features consists in a representation of the antagonism of celestial and infernal powers, and the final decision by which each soul is assigned a place on the one side or the other. It was universally believed in the Middle Ages, that the soul, separated from the body, had to cross a dangerous bridge, and subsequently undergo a literal weighing in the balance, according to the result of which its destiny was decided. It is in the nature of things that children, conversant with these ideas, should have dramatized them in their sports. We see no reason, with the German writers, to go back to ancient Northern mythology; nor do we find any ground for believing that our game is more likely to be of Teutonic than Romance descent.