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 35
side andthe girls on the other. It began with a boy taking a hand-kerchief and dancing before the girls, singing the first verse(fig. i). Selecting one of the girls, he threw the handkerchiefinto her lap, or put it round her neck, holding both ends him-self. Some spread the handkerchief on the…
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