[J] Sadlers’ Wells.
Then the smaller girls and boys have a number of games together: MOTHERS AND FATHERS, for instance, and TEACHERS, and SCHOOLS, and SOLDIERS, and NURSES, and HOSPITALS, and CARTS AND HORSES, and SHOPS, and CONVICTS AND WARDERS, and RAILWAY STATIONS, and games of that kind; and OLD DADDY WITCHES (also called POLLY WITCH or GRANNY WITCH) and SLEIGHS and I BOUGHT A DONKEY and I BOUGHT A PENNY DOLL and FIRE ENGINES and FROGS and WAR and CAT AND MOUSE and CAT AND DOG and HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH and A.B.C.D.F.G.—what have I left out?—
“one silly kid says E., and then all the others says you’re it!” namely “he” (E.)—
and JACK HORNER and OLD AUNT SALLY and TIP-TOP IS A SWEETS STORE and TOM TIDDLER. You know TOM TIDDLER, of course:
“I’m on old Tom Tiddler’s ground,
Picking up gold and silver—”?
There is also another game of this kind where they sort themselves into two parties called ORANGES AND LEMONS to the song of
Oranges and Lemons
Bells of Saint Clement’s—
Everybody knows that! In fact, children are not particular what they play at—