148 VOICES FROM THE WOODLANDS. 



Mention is also made of apples in a very old ballad, 

 called the "Jew's Daughter;" and the traveller who jour- 

 neys through the northern counties may hear, perchance, 

 a few verses floating through the open lattice of some 

 wayside cottage. 



The writer of an article entitled " Old English Ballads/' 

 in the 'Athenaeum' for 1839, mentions having heard the 

 following lines from an Englishwoman, who learned them 

 from her playmates, and remembered the same wild ditty to 

 have been sung by her grandmother over her spinning- 

 wheel. 



" It rained, it rained in merry Scotland, 



It rained on great and small, 

 When many a lad, in merry Scotland, 

 Came out to play at ball. 



" Then out there came the Jew's daughter, 

 And said to one, ' Come in and dine.' 

 * I will not come in, I cannot come in, 

 Without my playmates nine.' 



" She showed him an apple as green as grass, 

 She showed him a gay gold ring ; 



