Produced by David Edwards, Harry Lamé, the Music Team (Anne Celnik, monkeyclogs, Sarah Thomson and others) and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | Text printed in italics in the original work is presented here | | between underscores, as in _text_. Similarly, bold face in the | | original is represented as =text=. | | | | Footnotes have been moved to the end of the description of the | | game. | | | | [Illustration] means that there is an illustration present in the | | text; [Music] means a transcription in musical notation. | | | | This text uses characters and symbols that may not display | | properly, depending on the software used and its settings. | | | | More Transcriber's Notes may be found at the end of this text. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ VOL. I. ACCROSHAY-NUTS IN MAY Medium 8vo, xix.—424 pp. With numerous Diagrams and Illustrations. Cloth uncut. 12s. 6d. nett. Some Press Notices _Notes and Queries._—“A work of supreme importance. . . a scholarly, valuable, and delightful work.” _Spectator._—“Interesting and useful to the antiquarian, historian, and philologist, as well as to the student of manners and customs.” _Saturday Review._—“Thorough and conscientious.” _Critic_ (New York).—“A mine of riches to the student of folk-lore, anthropology, and comparative religion.” _Antiquary._—“The work of collection and comparison has been done with obvious care, and at the same time with a con amore enthusiasm.” _Zeitschrift für vergl. Literaturgeschichte._—“In jeder Beziehung erschöpfend und mustergültig.” _Zeitschrift für Pädagogie._—“Von hoher wissenschaftlicher Bedeutung.” [_All rights reserved_] THE TRADITIONAL GAMES Of England, Scotland, and Ireland WITH TUNES, SINGING-RHYMES, AND METHODS OF PLAYING ACCORDING TO THE VARIANTS EXTANT AND RECORDED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE KINGDOM COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY ALICE BERTHA GOMME VOL. II. OATS AND BEANS-WOULD YOU KNOW TOGETHER WITH A MEMOIR ON THE STUDY OF CHILDREN’S GAMES LONDON DAVID NUTT, 270-71 STRAND 1898 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press