+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | Text printed in italics in the original work is presented here | | between underscores, as in text. Similarly, bold face in the | | original is represented as =text=. | | | | Footnotes have been moved to the end of the description of the | | game. | | | | means that there is an illustration present in the | | text; [Music] means a transcription in musical notation. | | | | [Greek: text] represents a transcription of Greek text. [=a] and | | [=e] represent a-macron and e-macron, respectively. The oe- | | ligature is transcribed as [oe]. | | | | More Transcriber's Notes may be found at the end of this text. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
A DICTIONARY
OF
BRITISH FOLK-LORE
EDITED BY
G. LAURENCE GOMME, ESQ., F.S.A.
PRESIDENT OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY, ETC.
PART I.
TRADITIONAL GAMES
BY THE SAME EDITOR.
Small 4to. In Specially Designed Cover.
=ENGLISH SINGING GAMES.=
A Collection of the best Traditional Children's Singing Games, with their Traditional Music harmonised, and Directions for Playing. Each Game, Text and Music, is written out and set within a Decorative Border by WINIFRED SMITH, who has also designed Full-page Illustrations to each Game, and Initials and Decorative Border to the playing directions.
[_All rights reserved._]
THE TRADITIONAL GAMES Of England, Scotland, and Ireland
WITH
TUNES, SINGING-RHYMES, AND METHODS OF PLAYING ACCORDING TO THE VARIANTS EXTANT AND RECORDED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE KINGDOM
COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY ALICE BERTHA GOMME
VOL. I.
ACCROSHAY-NUTS IN MAY
LONDON DAVID NUTT, 270-71 STRAND 1894
TO
MY HUSBAND