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LADY OF THE LAND
4 to 10 players.
Indoors; out of doors.
This is one of the old dramatic games in which various parts are enacted by the different players.
One player takes the part of a lady and stands alone on one side. Another represents a mother, and the balance are children, from two to eight in number, whom the mother takes by the hand on either side of her, and approaches the lady, repeating the following verse; the children may join with her in this if desired:—
"Here comes a widow from Sandalam,
With all her children at her hand;
The one can bake, the other can brew
The other can make a lily-white shoe;
Another can sit by the fire and spin;
So pray take one of my daughters in."
The lady then chooses one of the children, saying:—
"The fairest one that I can see
Is pretty [Mary]; come to me."