Children's songs -- United States; Games with music
110. Strutt, p. 61.--_German_, Vernaleken, p. 63,
"Das Barlaufen."--_French_, Celnart, p. 58, "Les
Barres."--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 87. The French word
_barres_ is probably only a false interpretation of an older
word _bar_, a form of our base, meaning goal; so Swiss
"Bahre," Basle. Kindr., p. 30.--_Flemish_, in Hor. Belg.,
vi. 181.
111. N. and Q., 2d ser. VIII. pp. 70, 132. Brand, ii.
316.--_German_, Handelmann, p. 81, "Die Katzen von dem
Berge." The phrase is "Cat, cat, off my hill!"--_French_,
Belèze, p. 42, "Le Roi Détroné."
113. Chambers, p. 122, "Hickety Bickety."--_German_, Aus dem
Kinderleben, p. 24. Rochholz, p. 442.
114. Folk-lore Rec., iii. 169; Chambers, p. 36. See No. 89.
115. _German_, Vernaleken, p. 74,
"Weinbeer-Schneiden."--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 50. This is a
variation of No. 156; compare Frischbier, p. 186.
116. Chambers, p. 127, "Scots and English."
117. This number includes the remains of two ancient games: (a)
_Ancient Greek_, #schoinophilinda#, Pollux, ix. 115, in
which a player must be whipped round the ring with the cord
he has dropped at the back of another.--_German_, in 14th
century, Mone, Anzeiger, 1839, p. 395.--_Spanish_, Maspons
y Labrós, p. 22.--_French_, Celnart, p. 55. (b) Strutt, p.
285, "Cat and Mouse, or Kiss in the Ring," where a player
pursues another round and through the circle.--_French_,
Celnart, p. 39, "Le Chat et la Souris."--_Italian_,
Gianandrea, No. 6.--_German_, Handelmann, p. 78.
122. Variation of No. 121. The name connects it with the old
English game of "Frog in the Middle," Strutt, p. 293; the
ancient Greek, #chytrinda#," pot-game," see p. 31, note.
123. _German_, Vernaleken, p. 75. Handelmann, p. 80. Meier, p.
105. See No. 89.
124. _French_, Chabreul, p. 22, "La Toilette de Madame."
125. Nurs. Rh., No. 131.
127. _German_, Rochholz, p. 430, No. 50. See Nos. 77, 152, 153.
128. "Marble-day" in Sussex is Good Friday, N. and Q., 5th ser.
XII. 18. "Times" of German sports, Basle. Kindr., p. 30.
Meier, p. 92, 8.
129. Brand, ii. 302, "Camp." Strutt, p. 78.--_Ancient Greek_,
Pollux, ix. 104.--_Icelandic_ and _Low-German_, Weinhold,
Altnord. Leben, p. 292. Egils Saga, ch. 40.
130. Games of ball played with the hand are, of course, universal.
131. Strutt, p. 381 (new ed.). Strutt, p. 76. Bradford's History
of Plymouth (ed. by Ch. Deane, Boston, 1856), p. 112.
Ducange, under Pelota. Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, p. 272.
132. _German_ (Austria), Vernaleken, p. 2. (Schleswig-Holstein),
Handelmann, p. 88, "Stehball." (Switzerland), Rochholz, p.
388.
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