The Traditional Children's Games of England Scotland
& Ireland In Dictionary Form - Volume 1

With Tunes(sheet music), Singing-rhymes(lyrics), Methods Of Playing with diagrams and illustrations.

	24                            BASE-BALL—BASKET
	Three poor children in her arms; What will you give her ? Where did you come from ? —Played about 1850 at Hurstmonceaux, Sussex (Miss Chase). This is probably a forfeit game, imperfectly remembered. See " Old Soldier." Base-ball An undescribed Suffolk game.—Moor's Suffolk Words. See "Rounders."
	—London (A. B. Gomme). In this game the children all follow one who is styled the " mother," singing: I'll follow my mother to market, To buy a silver basket. The mother presently turns and catches or pretends to beat them.—Dorsetshire (Folk-lore Journal, vi. 231). We'll follow our mother to market, To buy herself a basket; When she comes home she'll break our bones, We'll follow our mother to market. —Hersham, Surrey (Folk-lore Record, v. 84). A version familiar to me is the same as above, but ending with ror tumbling over cherry stones. The mother then chased and beat those children she caught. The idea was, I believe, that the children were imitating or mocking their mother (A. B. G.). In Warwickshire the four