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 87
Taking off Cats Cradle Soldiers Bed … Cats Cradle (upside down) Cats Eyes Fisli. net, diamonds, fish-pond, fiddle. A supposed resemblanceoriginated them. Britton {Beauties of Wiltshire, Glossary)says the game in London schools is called Scratch-scratchor Scratch-cradle. The game is known to savage peoples. Professor Haddonnoted it…
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