Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-15

Slipper" After "hunter' Is chosen.
The boys aud girls sit or rather squat
in O round ring with crooked knees, so
that skirts and kits VIII cover them.
The hunter" from the outside brings
slipper to any child in the ring, demand
''when will ye ha' It din done?
Any day may be ,gentloneI by the re-
cipdtui II which the "huntcr expresses
satisfaction, and with CHEEKY "a
right turns away. The fun. begins
when the hunter returns .Jd deinnnus
che slipper. but Is met with, "Oh, |
passed Il on until IL is really disepv-
erSl. which is never until the hunter
has mel with many engaging adyentulgs,
when the one IN whose possession the
ilr Mulberry Bush" Affords inhni.
variety Of change IN It's action aud appli,
cation. Boys aud girls may go round
by it," hut it IL usually u pastime for
gir,s. Joining hands they sing
Here we 70 round by the mulberry buah,
Mulberry bush. mulberry bukA,
Here Ne 60 round by the mulberry bush
On cold and frosty mornmg.
This = the way We comb our mar
On d cold and frosty morning
brushing the hair, brushing the TEEN,
Walking to school. sitting nj school AM
countless other duties, pleasures ahI
shirbings Of childhood being lmltAten
In action as Mulberry Bush "a suny'
There are myriad girls games nearly
AL of which. ruriouslg enough, as IN
uther Euglish-speakiug countries, seen
10 derive their greatest interest and iaaci-
nation 10 little Scottish lasSies ir1iA their
uearness 10 the mock beroics ~ tht
courting love and marriage nualts "l
their elders. Tne oommonest Of these are
Rise sally walker ia which sally
rises" aud follows her goldman u
welded, has lovely children, hrsi = w
and then boy in which all of her
welded Joys and sOrrows are delineated
With marching aud singing. In AMI ons
the Window IN which, IA anu our "i
rings. with the interminalle singing and
mnrcllng lgssie evidently inaliN ue-
parts. anl her LAYER IL shrieklngly en-.
Joined ia follow her up to London
MY Name is Queen Mary.
My age Is sixteen.
My father's farmer
On yonder green.
He's plenty OF money
10 dress me sac hraNi
There's nae bonnie ladjis
Can take me ava =
hnt there is II bonnie laddie who gives
her "Ila, ha, and takes ''hsr aWai
breakfast Time" where "Bresklnst
tines coming on as well AZ dinner,
supper. bed. church, school play, aHd all
other possible times. In which It is exact
snd froper lime ITO catch bonnie
inssir" Beds In which ''mither' Is
sought 10 buy ''milking-scales' for htr
daughter. The mother Against ihHnlles
where the money is TO come from. The
fathers feather bed shall be sou. me
successive queries and answers then put
~ Gather In the girls bed, the girls In
the boys bed, the boys in the pig,sty ,
~ ulg In the wash-tub, with the hnnl
iran,nti. shift of having the family
WI .hing done by the river slde nj
thnt most popular and universal Of $50,
tish girls pastimes, "Ihe Gas sup
or .Merrima Tnnsn,'
This "Merrima 1pnsa perbaps Mefry
NTstnpsa'1 Is played by all the girls pres
mi ioiping hands in n circle, upon which
ihey march round and rounl slagils'
'i,yee times round goes INT gaia gaia
AnI ~ three tines round goes she;
Three times round goes the gaia saia
ship, $780,. 90 Tho saar
They repeat this thrice, e.pras s ii Is
low. The hrst 10 colr'esy X. cher
,be center OF the circle, "heh tAs ''"ei
sing; ,,.;1sns one hy one,
one by one, one by one;
s,boos,, you inaidens one by one
Aud down goes ,all courtesy Sler'
rilna Tansa! o, 80
cha chooses her mnidens. lhey ta ,5',
~ IN j distance when she - Ssclesis
Nv w,,,' name Of her lover. Inc re,
.oig Of The girls initiate swssR,n w
NY, M several stanzas 70 me euse.
I ny. .Is, sa viii sweep the house ~ "a
,,rita comes home. when the vtis - =
nriae l sS within the circle from 3 ST
nov ,p hundred stanzaS, VITA IN hsi ,,,as :
',a " Tarions limitations Of Mla. VIZ 'u, az
LA asat 'aa,egconplishea or ands .Ts ~ Us
pt.us FaSh one doses with -DoMn goss
ea 9ns Tansa! and the heaa-a w lsiit
Mtfi IN Wonderful alasir-drama OF slnn.
aug '; ia NO, concluded until the caF's'eN'
ny 81 he brides hrst-born' "iin'
ys,t SUNDAY morn to eh1rs' she must
1 Ei..;,s IN her knee. the best q a
Asd dewn goes MeIrlms 4anNl'
ahe lads of Scotland graduate ~ l., A..
,,.Is .s II tne siipy, the srcet anh ~
sshsolvard 10 golf, iostball asa e ..hal. :.
In crisket the goal y esn me-, ~ x; ~E
n the hoys can Mi frPfp r -, Ia,
their jarkels answer instead d,es ~, y liz 4,
1 4.