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

by Alice Bertha Gomme

Scurran-Meggy

A game much in vogue in Cumberland during the last century, and in which a peculiar form of top called a “scurran top” was used.—Halliwell’s Dictionary.

See-Saw

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—London (A. B. Gomme).

I.

Titty cum tawtay,
The ducks in the water;
Titty cum tawtay,
The geese follow after.

—Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes, p. 213.