The pair then kissed, and the game proceeded as in "London Bridge," ending with a tug-of-war.
The name, "Threading the Needle," is still applied, in a district of central France, to a dance in which many hundred persons take part, in which from time to time the pair who form the head of the row raise their arms to allow the line to pass through, coiling and winding like a great serpent.
FOOTNOTES:
[70] An acquaintance says, that in the interior of New York State the men and girls stand in the row by sevens; an arrangement which she suggests may imitate the different colors of strands.
Oats, oats, oats,
May the good God prosper you!
[72] These choruses, which may be paralleled from Great Britain, do not in themselves belong to any particular game.
[73] We find the same benevolent wish, under like circumstances, in a Swedish game. Is the correspondence accident or tradition?