The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-21
Now all your right hands in:
All your right hands out.
Shake them a little, little,
And then whirl round about

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And then whirl round about.
The quickness and dexterity 9th,
little ones arc often remarkable. Th,
right foot is put through the tactics
then the left foot; the right and lief
ears; the nose, the chin, the eyes ane
finally the head
Oranges and Lemons is good
deal of a hurry burly pastime. Ar
elder boy and girl stand and GRASP
hand. One secretly takes the name
Oranges" the other that of lem
ons." They then proceed about the
room and in whispers demand which
side each of their playmates has
chosen, when the leaders again GRASP
hands and call for their respective
adherents. These grasp their lead.
ers and each other about the waist
and test of strength, accompanied
by tremendous encouraging cheer.
ings, is the result
A jolly little game is Hunting the
Slipper" After hunter" is chos.
en-, the boys and girls sit or rather
squat in round ring with crooked
knees, so that skirts and kits will
cover them. The "Auntern from the
outside brings slipper to any child
in the ring, demanding,
When will ye ha' it din (done)? ?"
Any day may be mentioned by the
recipient at which the "huntern ex-
presses satisfaction, and with a
CHEEKY "A right" turns away. The
s1n begins when the hunter returns
and demands the slipper, but is met
with H0G, | passed it onr'
until ii is really discovered, which is
never until the hunter her met with
many engaging adventures, when the
one in whose possession the slipper
is found, in turn becomes the long
discounted "hunter."
The IN alberry Bush affords in.
finite variety of change in its action
and application. Boys and girls
may "go round by it," but it is usu.
ally pastime for girls. Joining
hands they sing:
Here we go round by the mulber-
~ bush,
Mulberry bush, mulberry bush,
Here we go round by the mulberry
bush
On a cold and frosty morning.
This is the way we comb our hair
On cold and frosty morning.
brushing the hair, brushing the teeth,
walking TO school, sitting at school,
and countless other duties, pleasures
and shirkings of childhood being
initiated in action as Mulberry
Bush" is sung.
There are myriad girls games
nearly all ofwhich, curiously enough
as in other English speaking coun-
tries, seem to derive their greatest
interest and fascination to little Scot
fish lassies from their nearness To
the moch heroics in the counting,
love and marriage affairs Of their
elders. The commonest of these are
Rise Sally Walker" in which Sally
rises and follows her guidman,"
is welded, has lovely children "Grst
girl and then boy in which all
of her welded joys and sorrows are
delineated, with marching and sing
ing, "In and Out the Window in
which, in and out OF rings, with the
interminable singing and marching,
lassie evidently finally departs,
and her love is shriekingly enjoined
70 follow her up to London my
Name Is Queen Mary"
My age is sixteen,
My fathers farmer
On yonder green,
He's plenty of money
To dress me sac Draw;
There's nae bonnie laddie
Can take me avail
but there is bonnie laddie who
gives her "Ha, ha," and takes cher
AVA"
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.