"I wish my father were a king,
I wish my mother were a queen,
And I a little companion!"
concluding with a close embrace in a dizzying whirl, breathlessly shouting all together,—
"A bundle of fagots! A bundle of fagots!"
In a third, which may have begun with a juvenile reacting of the Colonial struggle for liberty, we ranged ourselves under two leaders, who made an archway over our heads of their lifted hands and arms, saying, as we passed beneath,—
"Lift up the gates as high as the sky,
And let King George and his army pass by!"
We were told to whisper "Oranges" or "Lemons" for a pass-word; and "Oranges" always won the larger enlistment, whether British or American.
And then there was "Grandmother Gray," and the
"Old woman from Newfoundland,
With all her children in her hand;"
and the
"Knight from Spain
Inquiring for your daughter Jane,"