Gold and silver to you I bring;
Say is my love worth anything?
No, I’ll not have anything;
or,
Yes, I will have what you bring.
A ring is formed, and one player walks round outside saying the first four lines, stopping at any child she chooses who answers “Yes” or “No.” If “Yes,” the two go into the ring and kiss.—Marylebone, London (A. B. Gomme).
This is interesting, as a possible fragment of the old Keys of Canterbury [Halliwell’s “Nursery Rhymes,” No. cccclxvi.] and of the Paper of Pins, described so fully by Mr. Newell in “Games and Songs of American Children,” pp. 51-55.
See “[Keys of Heaven],” ante, p. 437.
Pickie.
A form of [Hopscotch]. [See “[Hopscotch],” vol. i. pp. 223-227.]