The game was played out of doors in a meadow. Two long parallel lines were drawn about fifty yards apart, forming bases behind them. Two boys stood some distance apart between the bases, and the rest of the players all stood within one base. One of the two boys in the centre acting as decoy cried “Sheep, sheep, come home!” The sheep represented by the boys in the base cried back, “We can’t, we’re afraid of the Wolf.” The decoy then said— The wolf’s gone to Devonshire, And won’t be back for seven year. Sheep, sheep, come home. The sheep then made rushes from different points, and tried to get across to the other base. The other player in the centre tried to catch the sheep as they ran. Those caught joined the side of the wolf, and caught others in their turn. It appears clear that the “Decoy” is the correct character in this game instead of a “shepherd” or “master,” as now given. The decoy is evidently assuming the character and voice of the shepherd, or shepherd’s dog, to induce the sheep to leave the fold where they are protected, in order to pounce upon them as they endeavour to go in the direction the voice calls them. The game owes its origin to times and places, when wolves were prowling about at night, and sheep were penned and protected against them by shepherds and watch-dogs. Wolf and the Lamb, The Two are chosen—one to represent the wolf and the other the lamb. The other players join hands and form a circle round the lamb. The wolf tries to break through the circle, and carry off the lamb. Those in the circle do all they can to prevent the wolf from entering within the circle. If he manages to enter the circle and seize the lamb, then other two are chosen, and the same process is gone through till all have got a chance of being the lamb and wolf. This game evidently represents a lamb enclosed in a fold, and the attempts of a wolf to break through and carry it off. —Fraserburgh, Aberdeen, _April 14, 1892_ (Rev. W. Gregor). Would you know how doth the Peasant [Music] —Monton, Lancashire (Miss Dendy). I. Would you know how doth the peasant? Would you know how doth the peasant? Would you know how doth the peasant Sow his barley and wheat! And it’s so, so, doth the peasant, And it’s so, so, doth the peasant, And it’s so, so, doth the peasant Sow his barley and wheat! Would you know how doth the peasant, &c., Reap his barley and wheat? It is so, so, doth the peasant, &c., Reap his barley and wheat! Would you know how doth the peasant, &c., Thresh his barley and wheat? It is so, so, doth the peasant, &c., Thresh his barley and wheat! Would you know how doth the peasant, &c., When the seed time is o’er? It is so, so, doth the peasant, &c., When the seed time is o’er!