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

—Blackwood’s Magazine, August 1821.

VIII.

Through the needle-e’e, boys,
One, two, three, boys.

—Ross-shire (Rev. W. Gregor).

IX.

Hop my needle, burn my thread,
Come thread my needle, Jo-hey.

—Lincoln (C. C. Bell).

X.

Come thread a long needle, come thread,
The eye is too little, the needle’s too big.

—Hanbury, Staffs. (Miss Edith Hollis).