Children's songs -- United States; Games with music
40. Chappell, Pop. Music of the Olden Time, p. 589.--_French_
(Canada), Gagnon, p. 223.--_Swedish_, Arwiddson, iii. 369.
42. _German_ usages, Rochholz, pp. 172-174. Meier, p. 93.--In
Middle Ages, Zingerle, pp. 32, 33.--_Italian_, Corazzini,
pp. 93, 94.--Drawing lots by spires of grass is probably the
"Erbelette" of Froissart; see Celnart, p. 105, "L'Herbette
Joliette."--_Spanish_, Marin, i. 123.
43. _German_ usages, Rochholz, pp. 174-183.
45. Compare French of Gagnon, p. 147.
46. _French_, Ch. du Camb., i. 119, etc.--_German_, Peter, p.
49, etc.--_Flemish_, Willems, p. 522.--_Breton_, Mélusine,
p. 462.
47. _French_, Rabelais, Gargantua, ch. xxii. Laisnel de la
Salle, ii. 156.
48. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., pp. 263-265. Chambers, p.
31.--_German_, Rochholz, pp. 156-170; he refers to
the Rigsmál of the poetic Edda. Schuster, p. 364,
etc.--_Provençal_, Ch. Pop. du Languedoc, p. 517, "Las
Bestios."
50. Nurs. Rh., No. 278. Compare Finnish game, Neus, p. 417.
52. _German_, Vernaleken, p. 94. Meier, p. 135.--_French_,
Chabreul, p. 183.--_Swedish_, Arwiddson, iii. 400.
53. Strutt, p. 294. Brand, ii. 287.--_German_, Vernaleken,
p. 86, "Ritterschlagen." Rochholz, p. 435.--_French_,
"Les Ambassadeurs," Celnart, p. 131. Old English game of
"Questions and Commands," Gent.'s Mag., Feb. 1738; Rochholz,
p. 413.
55. Perhaps the "Roi qui ne ment" of Froissart, which he
mentions as a game of his childhood (see p. 34), and also as
played by great personages.
56. _French_, Celnart, p. 125.
57. Similarly, in a French game, "Le Roi Dépouillé" (Celnart, p.
139), the player must say "Oserais-je?" at every movement.
58. See the round in Chappell, Pop. Mus., p. 77.
60. Perhaps connected with No. 154. Compare German, Vernaleken,
p. 52, No. 8.
61. Very likely the "Derision" (Risées) of Froissart.
62. _German_, Rochholz, p. 183. Vernaleken, p. 47,
etc.--_Provençal_, "Lou brandet de Roso," Ch. Pop. du
Languedoc, p. 577.
64. _German_, Dunger, p. 176, played also in New York. The rhyme
in the text seems a recent translation.
68. Nurs. Rh., No. 352. Chambers, p. 137.--_French_, Celnart, p.
19.--_Spanish_, Maspons y Labrós, p. 100, "Jan petit."
71. Nurs. Rh., No. 218.
74. Chambers, p. 139, "Curcuddie."--_French_, Celnart, p. 353,
"Les Jarcotons."--Among games of motion might have been
mentioned the familiar "Puss in the Corner," Gent.'s Mag.,
Feb. 1738.--_French_, Celnart, p. 57, "Les Quatre Coins,"
etc.
75. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 128.--_Danish_, Grundtvig, Dansk.
Folk., 2d ser. p. 142.--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 19, No.
18.--_Spanish_, Marin, I. 52, No. 84.
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