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.

	DUCK AT THE TABLE—DUCK DANCE		113
	wanted can be formed.—East Kirk by, Lincolnshire (Miss K. Maughan). Miss Baker (NorthamptonsJiire Glossary) says the game is played in that county. Formerly in the northern part of the county even married women on May Day played at it under the May garland, which was extended from chimney to chimney across the village street. Duck at the Table A boys' game, played with round stones and a table-shaped block of stone.—Patterson's Antrim and Down Glossary, Probably the same as Duckstone. Duck Dance
	vol. 1.	—London (A. B. Gomme). I saw a ship a sailin', A sailin' on the sea, And oh, it was laden With pretty things for me [thee]. There were comfits in the cabin, And apples in the hold; The sails were made of silk, And the masts were made of gold. Four and twenty sailors That sat upon the deck, Were four and twenty white mice With chains about their necks. The captain was a duck, With a packet on his back; And when the ship began to move, The captain cried u Quack ! quack ! " —Northamptonshire, Revue Celtique, iv. 200; HalliwelFs Nursery Rhymes^ No. ccclxxvii. H