Childrens Singing Games

By Alice Bertha Gomme, a leading British folklorist, and a pioneer in the study of children's games. Her work also includes The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 vols, 1894, 1898); Games for Parlour and Playground (1898); Old English Singing Games (1900); British Folk-Lore, Folk-songs, and Singing Games (1916); (with Cecil Sharp) Children's Singing Games (5 vols., 1909-12); ‘Boer Folk-Medicine and Some Parallels’, Folk-Lore 13 (1902), 69-75, 181-2; ‘The Green Lady: A Folk-tal