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
If the first girl guesses right she keeps her old place, and they begin
again. If she is wrong the child who has come from the row takes her
place, and a new game is begun. Of course the child who asks the last
question alters its voice as much as possible, so as not to be
recognised.—Liphook, Hants. (Miss Fowler).
Rigs
A game of children in Aberdeenshire, said to be the same as Scotch and
English, and also called Rockety Row.—Jamieson’s _Dictionary_.
Ring
See “Ring-taw.”
Ring a Ring o’ Roses
[Music]
—Marlborough (H. S. May).
[Music]
—Yorkshire (H. Hardy).
[Music]
—Sporle (Miss Matthews).
I. Ring a ring o’ roses,
A pocket-full o’ posies;
One for me, and one for you,
And one for little Moses—
Hasher, Hasher, Hasher, all fall down.
—Winterton, Lincoln, and Leadenham (Miss M. Peacock).
II. A ring, a ring o’ roses,
A pocket-full o’ posies;
One for Jack, and one for Jim, and one for little Moses—
A-tisha! a-tisha! a-tisha!
—Shropshire (Burne’s _Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 511).
III. A ring, a ring o’ roses,
A pocket-full o’ posies;
A curchey in, and a curchey out,
And a curchey all together.
—Edgmond (Burne’s _Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 571).
IV. Ring, a ring o’ roses,
A pocket full o’ posies;
Up-stairs and down-stairs,
In my lady’s chamber—
Husher! Husher! Cuckoo!
—Wakefield, Yorks. (Miss Fowler).
V. Ring, a ring of roses,
Basket full of posies—
Tisha! Tisha! all fall down.
—Penzance, Cornwall (Mrs. Mabbott).
VI. Ring, a ring a roses,
A pocketful of posies;
Hush, oh! hush, oh!
All fall down!
—Colchester, Essex (Miss G. M. Frances).
VII. Ring, a ring a rosy,
A pocket full of posies;
One for you, and one for me,
And one for little Moses—
Atishm! Atishm!
—Beddgelert (Mrs. Williams).
VIII. A ring, a ring of roses,
A pocket full of posies—
Hist! hush! last down dead!
—Gainford, Durham (Miss A. Eddleston).
IX. Ring, a ring a row-o,
See the children go-o,
Sit below the goose-berry bush;
Hark! they all cry Hush! hush! hush!
Sitty down, sit down.
Duzzy, duzzy gander,
Sugar, milk, and candy;
Hatch-u, hatch-u, all fall down together.
—South Shields (Miss Blair, aged 9).
X. Ringey, ringey rosies,
A pocketful of posies—
Hach-ho, hach-ho, all fall down.
Another version—
Hash-ho! Tzhu-ho! all fall down.
—Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews).
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