[13] At Wenlock they add to the chorus:
O Alice! your true love will send you a letter to turn round your head!
And she can turn the handlestick.
[14] Another version from Forfarshire gives “Green, green, grivers,” and “Pull the cradle string” for “Dance the Hielan’ Fling,” and one from Nairn is “Turn your back to the wall again.”
Warney
I’m the wee mouse in the hole in the wa’,
I’m come out to catch you a’.
One of the players starts with clasped hands to catch another. When this is done they join hands—each one, on being caught, going into the number to form a chain. If the chain breaks no one can be caught.—Laurieston School, Kirkcudbright (J. Lawson).