One player is chosen “he.” He then runs amidst the other players and tries to touch one, who then becomes “Tig” or “Touch” in turn.
See “[Ticky Touchwood],” “[Tig].”
Tower of London
The Tower is formed by a circle of children, two of whom constitute the gate. These two join hands, and raise or lower their arm to open or shut the gate. The Tower is summoned to open its gates to admit “King George and all his merry men,” how represented I can’t remember; but I know that at one point there is a chase, and the prisoner is caught and brought before the king, when there ensues a scrap of dialogue in song (Mrs. Harley).
See “[How many miles to Babylon],” “[King of the Barbarie].”
Town Lovers
There is a girl of our town,
She often wears a flowered gown;
Tommy loves her night and day,
And Richard when he may,
And Johnny when he can;
I think Sam will be the man!
—Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes, pp. 217-218.
A girl is placed in the middle of a ring and says the lines, the names being altered to suit the players. She points to each one named, and at the last line the one selected immediately runs away; if the girl catches him he pays a forfeit, or the game is commenced again, the boy being placed in the middle.