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

by Alice Bertha Gomme

—Lancashire (Mrs. Harley).

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—Earls Heaton, Yorks. (H. Hardy).

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I sent a letter to my love,
And on the way I dropped it;
And one of you have picked it up
And put it in your pocket.

—Dorsetshire (Folk-lore Journal, vii. 213); Penzance (Mrs. Mabbott).