II.
Bonny lass, canny lass,
Wilta be mine?
Thou’s nowder wesh dishes
Nor sarra the swine:
But sit on thy crippy, &c.
—Dickinson’s Cumberland Glossary.
(b) Two children, a girl and a boy, separate from their fellows, who are not particularly placed, the boy caressing the girl’s curls and singing the verses.
(c) This game is evidently a dramatic representation of wooing, and probably the action of the game has never been quite completed in the nursery. The verses are given as “nursery rhymes” by Halliwell, Nos. cccclxxxiii. and ccccxciv. The tune is from Rimbault’s Nursery Rhymes, p. 70. The words given by him are the same as the Earls Heaton version.
Currants and Raisins
Currants and raisins a penny a pound,
Three days holiday.
This is a game played “running under a handkerchief;” “something like ‘[Oranges and Lemons].’”—Lincoln (Miss M. Peacock).
Cushion Dance
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