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; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 171
floor. The child who is caught takes the placeof the centre child. Another method of playing the game issimilar to Bull in the Park. The child in the centre tries tobreak out of the ring, those forming it keeping the Frog in thering by any means in their power, while still keeping theirhands… … Frog, who suddenly makes a rush, and tries to break throughthe ring.—London (A. B. Gomme). Strutt describes this game, and gives an illustration from afourteenth century MS. which is here reproduced from theoriginal {Sports, p. 303). Newell {Games of American Chil-dren, p. 171) also mentions it,…
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