The tallest girl (as the Mother) stands with a row of girls (her daughters) behind her; one of the boys (a suitor) advances :

Suitor. Dossy, dossy, green grass,

Dossy, dossy, doss,

Come, all ye pretty fair maids,

And dance upon the grass.

I will give you pots and pans,

I will give you brass,

I will give you anything

For a pretty lass.

I will give you gold and silver,

I will give you pearl,

I will give you anything
For a pretty girl.

Mother. Take one, take one,

The fairest you may see.

The Suitor carries one off, and says:

You shall have a duck, my dear,

You shall have a drake,

You shall have a young man,

Apprentice for your sake.

The row of girls says:

If this young man should wealthy grow,
And give his wife a feather,

Birds shall sing, and the bells shall ring,

And we'll all clap hands together.

The verses are repeated by all the suitors in turn, until the whole are taken.

There are but two performers wanted in this Game, the rest composing the audience. One of them is enveloped in a large cloak, which should also hide his associate, who creeps beneath it, with the exception of his arms, which are thrust out to represent those of the speaker, who keeps his own out of sight. When all is ready, the speaker recites some popular speech, while the other must burlesque the action. This, when humorously done, is more laughable than can possibly be imagined by those who have never seen it. "My name is Norval," is the speech generally spoken.

GAPING, WIDE-MOUTHED, WADDLING FROG.

This and the following are Games of memory, each child enumerating the different rhymes in turn. The first, handing a

handkerchief to his neighbour, says: "Take this."

The next answers: "What's this?"

The first replies: "A gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog.'

The second does the same to a third, adding:

"Two pudding heads would choke a dog;

With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog."

And so on round the whole circle.

"Three monkeys tied to a clog;

Two pudding heads would choke a dog;
With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog."

"Four horses stuck in a bog;

Three monkeys tied to a clog;

Two pudding heads would choke a dog;

With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog."

Four horses stuck in a bog;

Three monkeys tied to a clog;

Two pudding heads would choke a dog; With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog."

"Six beetles against the wall,

Close by an old woman's apple-stall;

Five puppies by our dog Ball,

Who daily for their breakfast call;

Four horses stuck in a bog;

Three monkeys tied to a clog;

Two pudding heads would choke a dog;

With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog.

"Seven lobsters in a dish,

As fresh as any heart could wish;

Six beetles against the wall,

Close by an old woman's apple-stall;

Five puppies by our dog Ball,

Who daily for their breakfast call;

Four horses stuck in a bog;

Three monkeys tied to a clog;

Two pudding heads would choke a dog; With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog."

"Eight joiners in Joiners' Hall,

Working with their tools and all;