Would you know how doth the peasant, &c., When his labour is done? It is so, so, doth the peasant, &c., When his labour is done! And it’s so, so, doth the peasant, And it’s so, so, doth the peasant, And it’s so, so, doth the peasant, When his labour is o’er. —Monton, Lancashire (Miss Dendy). II. It is so, so, does the peasant [or, farmer], It is so, so, does the peasant, It is so, so, does the peasant, When sowing times come. It is so, so, does the peasant, &c., When reaping time comes. It is so, so does the peasant, &c., When his threshing times comes. It is so, so, does the peasant, &c., When the hunting’s begun. It is so, so does the peasant, &c., When the day’s work is done. —Frodingham, Lincoln and Notts (Miss M. Peacock). (_c_) The leader of this game stands in the middle, the players stand in a ring round him; when there are a sufficient number of players, several rings are formed one within the other, the smallest children in the inner ring. The different rings move in alternate directions when dancing round. All the children sing the words of each verse and dance round. They unclasp hands at the end of each alternate verse, and suit their actions to the words sung. At the end of the first verse they stand still, crook their arms as if holding a basket, and imitate action of sowing while they sing the second verse; they then all dance round while they sing the third, then stand still again and imitate reaping while they sing the fourth time. Then again dance and sing, stand still and imitate “thrashing” of barley and wheat; after “seed time is o’er,” they drop on one knee and lift one hand as if in prayer, again dancing round and singing. Then they kneel on one knee, put their hands together, lay their left cheek on them, and close their eyes as if asleep; while singing, “when his labour is o’er,” at the last verse, they all march round, clapping hands in time. This is the Monton game. The Frodingham game is played in the same way, except that the children walk round in a circle, one behind another, when they sing and imitate the actions they mention. “When the hunting’s begun” they all run about as if on horseback; “when the day’s work is done,” they all kneel on one knee and rest their heads on their hands.