XVIII. Up and down the valley, Up and down the valley; Up and down the valley, As I have done before. In and out the window, In and out the window; In and out the window, As I have done before. Stand and face your lover, Stand and face your lover; Stand and face your lover, As I have done before. Follow me to London, Follow me to London; Follow me to London, As I have done before. —Settle, Yorks. (Rev. W. S. Sykes). XIX. In and out the willows, In and out the willows; In and out the willows, As you have done before. Stand and face your lover, Stand and face your lover; Stand and face your lover, As you have done before. Follow me to London, Follow me to London; Follow me to London, As you have done before. —West Grinstead, Sussex (_Notes and Queries_, 8th Series, i. 249, Miss Busk). [Illustration: Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5] (_c_) The children join hands and form a ring with one child standing outside. The ring stands perfectly still throughout this game and sings the verses, the action being confined to at first one child, and then to two together. During the singing of the first verse the outside child dances round the ring on the outside. When the ring commences to sing the second verse the children hold up their arms to form arches, and the child who has been running round outside runs into the ring under one pair of joined hands, and out again under the next pair of arms, continuing this “in and out” movement until the third verse is commenced. The child should try and run in and out under all the joined hands. At the third verse the child stops in the ring and stands facing one, whom she chooses for her lover, until the end of the verse; the chosen child then leaves the ring, followed by the first child, and they walk round the ring, or they walk away a little distance, returning at the commencement of next verse. In the first three versions the second child is chased back and caught by the first child. In the Clapham version the two shake hands in the last verse. The Barnes version has kissing for its finale. The Hanbury also has kissing, but it precedes the following to London. In the Brigg, Lincolnshire (Miss Barker), a child stands in the middle and points with her finger to each one she passes; finally selects one, who leaves the ring and kneels in front of the girl in the middle. At the end of the second verse the kneeling child gets up and the first child goes in and out under the arms of the players, followed by the other. At the fourth they reverse and go back under the arms in the opposite direction, finally stopping in the middle