I. Sheep, sheep, come home! We dare not. What are you frightened of? The wolf. The wolf has gone home for seven days, Sheep, sheep, come home. —Settle, Yorks. (Rev. W. S. Sykes). II. Sheep, sheep, come home! I’m afraid. What of? The wolf. The wolf’s gone into Derbyshire, And won’t be back till six o’clock. Sheep, sheep, come home. —Hanbury, Staffordshire (Miss Edith Hollis). III. Sheep, sheep, go out! I’m afraid. What you’re ’fraid of? Wolf. Wolf has gone to Devonshire; Won’t be back for seven year. Sheep, sheep, go out! —Hurstmonceux, Sussex, as played about forty years ago (Miss E. Chase). IV. Sheep, sheep, come home! I’m afraid. What of? The wolf. The wolf’s gone to Devonshire, And won’t be back for seven year. Sheep, sheep, come home. —Anderby (Miss M. Peacock), Barnes (A. B. Gomme). V., VI. Won’t be back for eleven year. —Nottinghamshire (Miss M. Peacock). —Marlborough, Wilts (H. S. May). (_b_) One player acts as Shepherd, and stands at one side of the playground or field; another acts as Wolf. He crouches in one corner, or behind a post or tree. The other players are sheep, and stand close together on the opposite side of the ground to the Shepherd. The Shepherd advances and calls the sheep. At the end of the dialogue the sheep run across to the Shepherd and the Wolf pounces out, chases, and tries to catch them. Whoever he catches has to stand aside until all are caught. The game is played in this way in all versions sent me except Hurstmonceux, where there is the following addition:—The Wolf chases until he has caught all the sheep, and put them in his den. He then pretends to taste them, and sets them aside as needing more salt. The Shepherd or Mother comes after them, and the sheep cover their heads with their aprons. The Mother guesses the name of each child, saying, “This is my daughter ——. Run away home!” until she has freed them all. Versions of this game, almost identical with the Anderby version, have been collected from Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews); Crockham Hill, Kent (Miss E. Chase); Hersham, Surrey (_Folk-lore Record_, v. p. 88); Marlborough, Wilts (H. S. May); Ash and Barnes, Surrey (A. B. Gomme). In Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire is the place the wolf is said to have gone to. Mr. M. L. Rouse sends the following fuller description of the game as played at Woolpit, near Haughley, Suffolk, which gives, I think, the clue to the earlier idea of the game:—