scattered, and before the defenders could combine to offer resistance, cattle and goods would be carried off, and the ground laid waste, if resistance were offered. The tune of the Northants game (Rev. W. Sweeting) and Hants (H. S. May) are so nearly like the Bath tune that it seemed unnecessary to print them. The tune of the Surrey game is that of “Nuts in May.” The words of the Bath version collected by me are nearly identical with the Shropshire, except that “We are the Romans” is said instead of “We are the Rovers.” They are not therefore printed here, but I have used this version in my _Children’s Singing Games_, series I., _illustrated_. The tune of the Hants version (H. S. May) is similar to that of Wrotham, Kent (Miss D. Kimball). Weary Weary, weary, I’m waiting on you, I can wait no longer on you; Three times I’ve whistled on you— Lovey, are you coming out? I’ll tell mamma when I go home, The boys won’t let my curls alone; They tore my hair, and broke my comb— And that’s the way all boys get on. —Aberdeen Training College (Rev. W. Gregor). The girls stand in a row, and one goes backwards and forwards singing the first four lines. She then takes one out of the row, and they swing round and round while they all sing the other four lines. Weave the Diaper Weave the diaper tick-a-tick tick, Weave the diaper tick; Come this way, come that, As close as a mat, Athwart and across, up and down, round about, And forwards and backwards and inside and out; Weave the diaper thick-a-thick thick, Weave the diaper thick. —Halliwell’s _Nursery Rhymes_, p. 65. (_b_) This game should be accompanied by a kind of pantomimic dance, in which the motions of the body and arms express the process of weaving, the motion of the shuttle, &c. (_c_) Mr. Newell (_Games and Songs of American Children_, p. 80) mentions a dance called “Virginia Reel,” which he says is an imitation of weaving. The first movement represents the shooting of the shuttle from side to side and the passage of the woof over and under the threads of the warp; the last movements indicate the tightening of the threads and bringing together of the cloth. He also says that an acquaintance told him that in New York the men and girls stand in rows by sevens, an arrangement which may imitate the different colours of strands. Mr. Newell does not say whether any words are sung during the dancing of the reel. Halliwell gives another rhyme (p. 121), which may have belonged to this weaving game. It is extremely probable that in these fragments described by him we have remains of one of the old trade dances and songs. Weigh the Butter