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DRAW A PAIL OF WATER |
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One in a rush, and two in a bush, To see a fine lady pop under a bush.
—Anderby, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire near the Trent (Miss Peacock). |
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One we go rush, |
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Two we go push ;
Lady come under the corner bush.
—Shepscombe, Gloucestershire (Miss Mendham). |
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Sift the lady's oaten meal, sift it into flour, |
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Put it in a chest of drawers and let it lie an hour.
One of my rush,
Two of my rush, Please, young lady, come under my bush. My bush is too high, my bush is too low, Please, young lady, come under my bow. Stir up the dumpling, stir up the dumpling.
—Belfast (W. H. Patterson).
XV. Sieve my lady's oatmeal, Grind my lady's flour; Put it in a chestnut,
Let it stand an hour. One may rush, two may rush; Come, my girls, walk under the bush.
—Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes, Games, cclxxxviii.
(b) The Berrington version of this game is played as follows:—Two girls face each other, holding each other by both hands. Two others face each other, holding both hands across the other two. They see-saw backwards and forwards, singing the lines (fig. i). One girl gets inside the enclosing hands (fig. 2]t and they repeat till all four have " popped under" (fig. 3^, when they "jog" up and down till they fall on the floor! (fig. 4). At Ellesmere only two girls join hands, and as many "pop under" as they can encircle. The Lincolnshire and Norfolk versions are played practically in the same way. In the Liphook version the children stand in two and two opposite to each other; the children on |
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