Children's songs -- United States; Games with music
76. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 112.--_French_, Chabreul, p.
8, "Petit bonhomme vist encore, car il n'est pas
mort."--_German_, Handelmann, p. 31, "Little man still
lives."--The _High-German_ formula is, "Stirbt der Fuchs, so
gilt der Balg." Like the English phrase is a Danish game,
"Do not let my master's bird die", Syv, "Adagia Danica,"
p. xlvii.--_Russian_ (Kazan), Mozarowski, p. 88, "Kurilka
lives, she is not dead."
77. (a) _German_, Vernaleken, p. 89.--_French_, Celnart, p.
307--(b) Nurs. Rh., No. 282.--_German_, Vernaleken, p. 88,
"Vater Eberhard."--(c) _German_, Rochholz, p. 430, No.
50.--_French_, Rabelais, Gargantua, ch. xxii. Celnart, p.
124, "Pince-sans-rire."
79. Compare finger-game in Chambers, p. 116. Italian finger-game
referred to, Bernoni, p. 22, No. 25.
81. Strutt, p. 290, "Hammer and Block."
83. _French_.--Celnart, p. 162, "Le Chevalier Gentil."
86. Nurs. Rh., Nos. 297, 307.--_German_, Meier, p. 138;
Handelmann, p. 40.--_French_, Mélusine, p. 198.
87. _Italian_ (the game, not the rhyme), Ferraro, G. Monfer.,
No. 10.--_Spanish_, Marin, i. 48, No. 71. Compare Nurs. Rh.,
No. 293; Chambers, p. 159.
88. Celnart (2d ed., A.D. 1830) gives sixty kinds of
"pénitences," consisting in kissing, as then usual in French
society (see p. 6).--_French_, Celnart, p. 302, "Les Aunes
d'Amour," the same as "Measuring yards of tape."--_German_,
Frischbier, p. 201, "Aus dem Brunnen erretten," equivalent
to "I'm in the well." "Redeeming forfeits in Germany,"
Frischbier, p. 199.
89. With the dialogue at the end of the second version, compare
No. 154, B. An Italian game, Corazzini, p. 104, has a
similar theme.
90. Spectator, No. 268.--_German_, Rochholz, p. 440.
91. Strutt, p. 386. "Even or Odd." A universal game.--_Ancient
Egyptian_, Wilkinson, ii. 416.--_Ancient Greek_, Aristotle,
Rhet. iii. 5. The formula is #artia ê perissa#--_Latin_,
"par impar."--_German_, "grad oder ungrad," or "effen oder
uneffen."--_Spanish_, Marin, i. 51, "Pares ó Nones" ("par
est, non est").
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