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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.Gomme, Alice Bertha

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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

Name: The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.
Author: Gomme, Alice Bertha

Gomme, Alice Bertha

Folklore -- Great Britain; Games -- Great Britain

The intense pleasure which the collection of these games has given me
has been considerably enhanced by the many expressions of the same kind
of pleasure from correspondents who have helped me, it not being an
infrequent case for me to be thanked for reviving some of the keenest
pleasures experienced by the collector since childhood; and I cannot
help thinking that, if these traditional games have the power of thus
imparting pleasure after the lapse of many years, they must contain the
power of giving an equal pleasure to those who may now learn them for
the first time.

ALICE BERTHA GOMME.

BARNES COMMON, S.W.,

_Jan. 1894_.




LIST OF AUTHORITIES


                                ENGLAND.

  Halliwell’s _Nursery Rhymes_.
  Halliwell’s _Dictionary_, ed. 1889.
  Holloway’s _Dictionary_, ed. 1838.
  Strutt’s _Sports and Pastimes_, ed. 1831.
  Brand’s _Popular Antiquities_, ed. 1875.
  Nares’ _Glossary_, ed. 1872.
  Grose’s _Dictionary_, 1823.
  _Notes and Queries._
  _Reliquary._
  English Dialect Society Publications.
  Folk-lore Society Publications, 1878-1892.

  BEDFORDSHIRE—
    Luton                         Mrs. Ashdown.
    Roxton                        Miss Lumley.

  BERKSHIRE                       Lowsley’s _Glossary_.
    Enborne                       Miss Kimber.
    Fernham, Longcot              Miss I. Barclay.
    Newbury                       Mrs. S. Batson, Miss Kimber.
    Sulhampstead                  Miss Thoyts (_Antiquary_, vol. xxvii.)

  CAMBRIDGESHIRE—
    Cambridge                     Mrs. Haddon.

  CHESHIRE                      { Darlington’s, Holland’s, Leigh’s, and
                                { Wilbraham’s _Glossaries_.
    Congleton                     Miss A. E. Twemlow.

  CORNWALL                      { _Folk-lore Journal_, v., Courtney’s
                                { _Glossary_.
    Penzance                      Miss Courtney, Mrs. Mabbott.

  CUMBERLAND                      Dickinson’s _Glossary_.

  DERBYSHIRE                    { _Folk-lore Journal_, vol. i., Mrs.
                                { Harley, Mr. S. O. Addy.
    Dronfield, Eckington, Egan    Mr. S. O. Addy.

  DEVONSHIRE                      Halliwell’s _Dictionary_.

  DORSETSHIRE                   { Barnes’ _Glossary_, _Folk-lore
                                { Journal_, vol. vii.

  DURHAM                        { Brockett’s _North Country Words_, ed.
                                { 1846.
    Gainford                      Miss Eddleston.
    South Shields                 Miss Blair.

  ESSEX—
    Bocking                       _Folk-lore Record_, vol. iii. pt. 2.
    Colchester                    Miss G. M. Francis.

  GLOUCESTERSHIRE               { Holloway’s _Dictionary_, _Midland
                                { Garner_.
    Shepscombe, Cheltenham        Miss Mendham.
    Forest of Dean                Miss Matthews.

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