This game is not mentioned by Halliwell or Chambers, nor, so far as I am aware, has it been previously printed or recorded in collections of English games. It appears in America as “Go round and round the Valley” (Newell, _Games_, p. 128). See “Thread the Needle.” [6] Among the Ovahererí tribe, at the end of the festive time, the newly-married pair take a walk to visit all the houses of the “Werst.” The husband goes first and the wife closely follows him.—_South African Folk-lore Journal_, i. 50. Round and Round went the Gallant Ship I. Round and round went the gallant, gallant ship, And round and round went she; Round and round went the gallant, gallant ship, Till she sank to the bottom of the sea, the sea, the sea, Till she sank to the bottom of the sea. All go down as the ship sinks. —Cullen (Rev. W. Gregor). II. Three times round goes our gallant ship, And three times round went she; Three times round went our gallant ship, Then she sank to the bottom of the sea. As the players all “bob” down they cry out “the sea, the sea, the sea.” —Aberdeen Training College (Rev. W. Gregor). Round Tag A large ring is formed, two deep, with wide right and left hand intervals between each couple, and one child stands in the ring and another outside. When the play begins the child in the middle runs and places herself in front of one of the groups of two, thus forming a group of three. Thereupon the third child, that is, the one standing on the outer ring, has to run and try to get a place in front of another two before the one outside the ring can catch her. Then she who is at the back of this newly-formed three must be on the alert not to be caught, and must try in her turn to gain a front place. The one catching has all along to keep outside the ring, but those trying to escape her may run in and out and anywhere; whoever is caught has to take the catcher’s place.—Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews). [Illustration] This game, called “Short Terrace” at East Kirkby, is played in the same way as that described from Sporle, with the exception that three players stand together instead of one in the centre to start the game. The player who stands immediately outside the circle is called the “clapper;” it is his object to _hit_ the player who stands behind two others.—East Kirkby, Lincolnshire (Miss K. Maughan). “Twos and Threes” is the name by which this game is known in Hampshire, Monton in Lancashire (Miss Dendy), and other places. It is played in precisely the same manner as at Sporle. Halliwell’s _Dictionary_ says of this game as played in Devon, “A round game, in which they all stand in a ring.” See “Tag.” Rounders