Will you give us some of it, &c.
No; we’ll give you none of it, &c.
We will tell our magistrates, &c.
We don’t care for your magistrates, &c.
We will tell our new-born prince, &c.
We don’t care for your new-born prince, &c.
Are you ready for a fight?
Yes, we’re ready for a fight.
Tuck up sleeves and have a fight.
General scrimmage follows.—Girton Village, Cambridgeshire (Dr. A. C. Haddon).
When I was a Young Girl.
The first lines are—
When I was a naughty girl, &c., and this way went I (shrugging shoulders),
When I was a good girl, &c. (folding arms, walking soberly),
When I was a teacher (beating time or whacking, optional),
When I went a-courting (walking arm in arm),
When I had a baby (nursing apron as baby),
When my baby died (crying),
When my father beat me (hitting one another),
When my father died,
How I did laugh! (laughing).
—Girton Village, Cambridgeshire (Dr. A. C. Haddon).