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.

	428	NUTS IN MAY
	Pray, whose nuts will you gather away, Gather away, gather away ? Pray, whose nuts will you gather away, So early in the morning ? We'll gather Miss A------'s nuts away, Nuts away, nuts away, We'll gather Miss A------'s nuts away, So early in the morning. Pray, who will you send to take them away, To take them away, take them away ? Pray, who will you send to take them away, So early in the morning ? We'll send Miss B------to take them away, To take them away, take them away, We'll send Miss B------to take them away, So early in the morning. —Symondsbury, Dorsetshire (Folk-lore Journal, vii. 226-7). (U) The children form in two lines of equal length, facing one another, with sufficient space between the lines to admit of their walking in line backwards and forwards towards and away from each other, as each line sings the verses allotted to it (fig. 1). The first line sings the first, third, and fifth verses, and the opposite line the second and fourth. At the end of the fifth verse
	a handkerchief or other mark is laid on the ground, and the two children (whose names have been mentioned, and who are as evenly matched as possible), take each other's right hand and endeavour to pull each other over the handkerchief to their own side (fig. 2). The child who is pulled over the handkerchief