This game, with verbal identity (save the title), was a few years since an amusement of well-bred girls in New York city. It has also been familiar in Massachusetts, with the exception of one line—
Come all ye old maids in your sinful ways!
No. 39.
Trials, Troubles, and Tribulations.
All participating are blindfolded, and, joining hands, march forward, singing—
Here we go through the Jewish nation,
Trials, troubles, and tribulation.
The fun consists in bringing up against a door, or in causing a general downfall by tripping over some obstacle.
New York.
No. 40.
Happy is the Miller.
An odd number of players, of whom the one not paired stands in the centre of the ring. The others march in couples, each consisting of a girl and a boy, till the sudden end of the song, when each boy grasps the girl in front of him.
Happy is the miller, who lives by himself,
All the bread and cheese he piles upon the shelf,
One hand in the hopper, and the other in the bag,
The wheel turns around, and he cries out, Grab!