No, I won’t.
Pretty Miss Pink, she won’t come out,
Won’t come out, won’t come out, &c.
She will come out.
Pretty Miss Pink, she has come out, &c.
—Winterton, Lincs and Nottinghamshire (Miss M. Peacock.)
(b) The children place themselves in a row. They each choose a colour to represent them. One player must be pink. Another player stands facing them, and dances to and fro, singing the first four lines. The dancer then sings the next two lines, and Miss Pink having answered rushes forward, catches hold of the dancer’s hand, and sings the next verse. Each colour is then taken in turn, but Miss Pink must always be first.
(c) This is clearly a variant of “[Pray, Pretty Miss],” colours being used perhaps from a local custom at fairs and May meetings, where girls were called by the colours of the ribbons they wore.
Prick at the Loop
A cheating game, played with a strap and skewer at fairs, &c., by persons of the thimble-rig class, probably the same as the game called “Fast and Loose.”
Prickey Sockey
Christmas morning is ushered in by the little maidens playing at the game of “Prickey Sockey,” as they call it. They are dressed up in their best, with their wrists adorned with rows of pins, and run about from house to house inquiring who will play at the game. The door is opened and one cries out—
Prickey sockey for a pin,
I car not whether I loss or win.