The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 2 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 2 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes, and Methods of Playing etc.
Gomme, Alice Bertha
Folklore -- Great Britain; Games -- Great Britain
VIII. Who’s going round my sunny wall to night?
Only little Jacky Lingo.
Don’t steal any of my fat chicks.
I stole one last night
And gave it a little hay,
There came a little blackbird,
And carried it away.
—Bocking, Essex (_Folk-lore Record_, iii. 170).
IX. Who’s that round my stable door [or stony wall]?
Only little Jack and Jingo.
Don’t you steal any of my fat pigs!
I stole one last night and the night before,
Chick, chick, come along with me.
—Deptford, Kent (Miss Chase).
X. Who’s this walking round my stony gravel path?
Only little Jacky Jingle.
Last night he stole one of my sheep,
Put him in the fold,
Along came a blackbird, and pecked off his nose.
—Hampshire (Miss Mendham).
XI. Who is going round my fine stony house?
Only Daddy Dingo.
Don’t take any of my fine chicks.
Only this one, O!
—Ellesmere (Burne’s _Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 520).
XII. Who is that walking round my stone-wall?
Only little Johnnie Nero.
Well, don’t you steal any of my fat sheep!
I stole one last night and gave it a lock of hay,
Here come I to take another away.
—Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews).
XIII. Who’s that going round my pretty garden?
Only Jacky Jingo.
Don’t you steal any of my fat sheep!
Oh, no I won’t; oh, yes I will; and if I do I’ll take them
one by one, so out comes Jacky Jingo.
—Ogbourne, Wilts. (H. S. May).
XIV. Who’s going round my sheepfold?
Only poor Jack Lingo.
Don’t steal any of my black sheep!
No, I won’t, only buy one.
—Roxton, St. Neots (Miss E. Lumley).
XV. Who goes round my house this night?
None but Limping Tom.
Do you want any of my chickens this night?
None but this poor one.
—Macduff (Rev. W. Gregor).
XVI. Who goes round my house this night?
Who but Bloody Tom!
Who stole all my chickens away?
None but this poor one.
—Chambers’s _Pop. Rhymes_, 122.
XVII. Who goes round the house at night?
None but Bloody Tom.
Tack care an’ tack nane o’ my chickens awa’!
None but this poor one.
—Keith (Rev. W. Gregor).
XVIII. Johnny, Johnny Ringo,
Don’t steal all my faun sheep.
Nob but one by one,
Whaul they’re all done.
—Easther’s _Almondbury Glossary_.
XIX. Who’s going round my stone wall?
Only an old witch.
Don’t take any of my bad chickens!
No, only this one.
—Hanbury, Staffs. (Miss E. Hollis).
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