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CARRY MY LADY TO LONDON—CASHHORNIE 59
Carry my Lady to London
I. Give me a pin to stick in my thumb To carry my lady to London. Give me another to stick in my other To carry her a little bit farther.
—Belfast (W. H. Patterson).
II. London Bridge is broken,
And what shall I do for a token ? Give me a pin to stick in my thumb And carry my lady to London.
—Notes a?id Queries, 4th series, xii. 479.
III. Give me a pin to stick in my chin (? cushion) To carry a lady to London; London Bridge is broken down And I must let my lady down.
—NorthalPs English Folk Rhymes, p. 353.
(b) In this game two children cross hands, grasping each other's wrists and their own as well: they thus form a seat on which a child can sit and be carried about. At the same time they sing the verse.
Carrying the Queen a Letter
The King and Queen have a throne formed by placing two chairs a little apart, with a shawl spread from chair to chair. A messenger is sent into the room with a letter to the Queen, who reads it, and joins the King in a courteous entreaty that the bearer of the missive will place himself between them. When he has seated himself on the shawl, up jumps the King and Queen, and down goes the messenger on the floor.— Bottesford and Anderly (Lincolnshire), and Nottinghamshire (Miss M. Peacock).
(J?) This is virtually the same game as "Ambassador," described by Grose as played by sailors on some inexperienced fellow or landsman. Between the two chairs is placed a pail of water, into which the victim falls.
Cashhornie
A game played with clubs by two opposite parties of boys, the aim of each party being to drive a ball into a hole belonging |
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