The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

								


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  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

PREFACE

Soon after the formation of the Folk-lore Society in 1878 my husband
planned, and has ever since been collecting for, the compilation of a
dictionary of British Folk-lore. A great deal of the material has been
put in form for publication, but at this stage the extent of the work