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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 78

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six, the outer circle running round the inner as many times as the number named. The children then change places and repeat. — Monton, Lancashire (Miss Dendy). Bung the Bucket =r=£r=^— — b^=p=r — t^— -i — P— ~jf- -*—*-* — i — f— LF=| — c=- — London (J. P. Emslie). A number of boys divide themselves… … supports himself against a wall (fig.)- They thus make an even and solid row of their backs. The other side, the Bungs; leap on to the backs of the Buckets, the first one going as far up the row as possible, the second placing himself close behind the first, and so on. If they all succeed in…

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