This is the way the tailor goes.
—Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes, 227.
(b) The children dance round, singing the first three lines, turning round and clapping hands for the fourth line. They curtsey while saying, “This is the way the lady goes,” and again turn round and clap hands for the last line. The same process is followed in every verse, only varying what they act—thus, in the third verse, they bow for the gentleman—and so the amusement is protracted ad libitum, with shoemaking, washing clothes, ironing, churning, milking, making up butter, &c., &c.
(c) This game is practically the same as the “[Mulberry Bush].” The action is carried on in the same way, except that the children clap their hands at the fourth line, instead of each turning themselves round, as in “[Mulberry Bush].” The “High, ho, ham!” termination may be the same as the “I, O, OM” of [Mr. Addy’s version] of “[Milking Pails].”
See “[Mulberry Bush],” “[When I was a Young Girl].”
New Squat
A ring is made by marking the ground, and a tin placed in the middle of it. One boy acts as keeper of the tin, the other players also stand outside the ring. One of these kicks the tin out of the ring, the others then all run to hide or squat out of sight. The keeper has to replace the tin before looking for the boys. If, after that, he can spy a boy, that boy must come out and stand by the ring. When another boy is spied, he endeavours to reach the ring before the keeper does so, and kick out the tin. If he is successful, any one of the boys who is standing by, having been previously spied, is released from the keeper, and again hides. The object of the keeper is to successfully spy all the boys. When this is accomplished the last boy becomes the keeper.—Earls Heaton, Yorks. (Herbert Hardy).
See “[Mount the Tin].”
Nine Holes
Nine round holes are made in the ground, and a ball aimed at them from a certain distance; or the holes are made in a board with a number over each, through one of which the ball has to pass.—Forby’s Vocabulary.