102 Children's Singing Games. 



What's the prisoner done to you, 

 My fair lady ? 



The next verse is the reply : — 



Broke my locks and stole luy g'old, 

 Stole my gold, stole my gold, 

 Broke my locks and stole my gold, 

 My fair lady. 



The question is then asked : — 



What will you take to set her free, 

 Set her free, set her free, 

 What will you take to set her free, 

 My fair lady ? 

 The reply is : — 



A guinea and a half to set her free, 

 Set her free, &c. 



The ransom demanded is too high, so the others say : — 



A guinea and a half you shall not get, 

 Shall not get, &c. 



The gaolers then sing : — 



Then off to prison she must go, 

 She must go, &c. 



And convey the prisoner away to a place selected. When she is 

 thus in custody she is asked which of two things she prefers, 

 e.g.^ a gold or a silver watch. When she makes her choice the 

 prisoner is placed to one side or other, according to her selection 

 of the article, one of the captors representing, say, the silver and 

 the other the gold. The game is then repeated. 



For the following, four girls stand clasping each others hands, 

 forming as it were a Maltese cross. They then sing, pulling 

 back and forward in time with the music : — 



Draw buckets of water, 



Upon a lady's daughter ; 



One in a bush, two in a bush, 



A pretty young lady come under my bush. 



At the words " one in a bush " one twists herself round with her 

 back to the centre, and so on until all are in that position, still 



