Chapter II: Part II

I. GAMES--Whipping-tops, Marbles, etc.--"I am good at Scourging
of my Toppe," date 15--(?)--Dice and
Pitch-and-Toss--"Dab a Prin in my Lottery Book"--"A'
the Birds of the Air"--Hop Scotch--"Zickety, dickety,
dock"--"All good Children go to Heaven"--"Mary at the
Cottage Door."

MARRIAGE GAMES--"If ever I Marry I'll Marry a Maid,"
1557 A.D.--London Street Games--A Wedding--"Choose one,
choose two, choose the nearest one to you"--"Rosy
Apple, Lemon, and Pear"--The King of the
Barbarines--"I've got Gold and I've got Silver"--A
Lancashire Round Game--"Fol th' riddle, I do, I do, I
do"--Round Game of the Mulberry Bush--"Pray, Mr. Fox,
what time is it?"--"Mother, buy me a Milking
Can"--"Here comes a Poor Sailor from Botany Bay"--"Can
I get there by Candle-light?" 58

II. NURSERY GAMES--A Game for a Wet Day--"Cows and Horses walk
on four legs"--A Game nearly 300 years old--"There were
two birds sitting on a stone"--A B C Game--"Hi diddle
diddle"--"I Apprentice my Son"--An Armenian Child's
Game, "Jack's Alive"--Russian Superstition 80

III. JEWISH RHYMES--"A kid, a kid my father bought for two
pieces of money--a kid! a kid!"--"The house that Jack
built"--The Scotch version, "There was an old woman
swept her house and found a silver penny"--The Chad
Gadyâ--"Who knoweth One" 89

IV. An ancient English Rhyme--"A Frog who would a-wooing go,"
the version of same sung in Henry VIII.'s reign--Songs
of London Boys in Tudor times--"Quoth John to
Joan"--"Good parents in good manners do instruct their
child"--"Tom a Lin"--"Bryan O'Lynn"--Four songs sung by
children in Elizabeth's reign--"We'll have a Wedding at
our House" 100

V. CAT RHYMES--"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat"--"Ten little mice sat down
to spin"--"The rose is red, the grass is green"--"I Love
little Pussy"--"Three Cats sat by the Fireside"--"There
was a Crooked Man"--"Ding dong bell"--Cat tale of Dick
Whittington 112

VI. A Cradle Song of the first century, "Sleep, O son, sleep" 117

VII. JACK RHYMES 123

VIII. RIDDLE MAKING--German riddle of "Seven White and Seven
Black Horses"--Greek riddle of the Two Sisters; another
of "The year, months, and days"--"Old Mother
Needle"--"Purple, yellow, red, and green"--"As round as
an Apple"--"Humpty Dumpty"--The Ph[oe]nix
fable--"Ladybird! ladybird! fly away home" 127

IX. NURSERY CHARMS--"When a twister twisting twists him a
twist"--An Essex Charm for a Churn--"Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John" Charms.

MONEY RHYMES--"How a lass gave her lover three slips
for a tester"--"Little Mary Esther"--"Sing a Song of
Sixpence"--"There was an old man in a velvet
coat"--"See-saw"--"One a penny"--"There's never a
maiden in all the town"--"Pinky, pinky,
bow-bell"--Numerical Nursery Rhyme--Baker's Man 134

X. SCRAPS--"Oh, slumber, my darling, thy sire is a
knight"--"Bye, baby bumpkin"--"Nose, nose, jolly red
nose"--"I saw a man in the moon"--A Henry VIII.
Rhyme--"Peg-Peg"--"Round about"--"Father
Long-legs"--"Two-penny rice"--"Come when you're
called"--A Game--"Nanny Natty Coat"--"As I was going
down Sandy Lane"--"There was an old woman"--"Robert
Rowley"--"Little General Monk"--"Dr. Tom Tit"--"Tommy
Trot"--"Goosey Gander"--"The White Dove sat on the
Castell Wall"--"This Little Pig"--"Little Bo
Peep"--"See-saw, Margery Daw"--"Four-and-twenty
Tailors"--"Little Moppet"--"Hub-a-dub, dub"--"Diddle
Dumpling"--"Jack and Jyll"--"The Cat and the
Fiddle"--"Baa! baa! black sheep"--"Here comes a poor
Duke out of Spain"--"Ride to the
market"--"Cross-patch"--"The Man of the South"--A
Lancashire Fragment--"Dickery dock"--"There was an old
woman toss'd up in a blanket"--"We're all in the
dumps"--A Proverb--A Compliment--The Reverse 141

XI. SONGS--"Will the love that you're so rich
in?"--"Cock-a-doodle doo"--"King Cole"--"Rowsty
dowt"--"There was a Little Man"--The Creole's
Song--"Dapple Grey"--"Blue Betty"--"Tom, Tom, the
Piper's Son"--"Oh dear, what can the matter
be?"--"Simple Simon"--"I saw a Ship a-sailing"--"David
the Welshman"--"My Father he Died" 152

XII. SCOTCH RHYMES--"As I went up the Brandy Hill"--Scotch
version of Bryan O'Lynn--"Cripple Dick"--"Pan, Pan,
Play"--"Gi'e a thing"--A Gruesome Riddle--"King and
Queen of Cantelon"--Hidee--"Wha's your Daddie?"--"The
Moon is a Lady" 162

XIII. A favourite Nursery Hymn--The Latin version of the
Virgin's Lullaby 169

XIV. "There was a maid came out of Kent"--"Martin Smart"--"Great
A, little B"--A Nursery Tale--"A duck, a drake"--"Hark!
Hark!"--A B C Jingles--A Catch Rhyme 173

XV. BELL RHYMES--"Banbury Cross"--"Gay go up, and gay go
down"--"Mary, Mary, quite contrary"--The Provençal
"Ding-dong" 178

XVI. Political Significations of Nursery Rhymes--"Come,
Jack"--"A man of words"--Pastorini, Lord Grey,
Lyttleton, Dan O'Connell, and Lord Brougham caricatured 185