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The following game, known as " Round about the Punch 

 Bowl," at Ballymiscaw, is very widely known. One child is in 

 the centre of a circle of children, who dance round singing — 



" Round about the punch bowl, once, twice, three. 

 The last time they catch in time they'll not catch me. 

 (Lizzie) made a pudding so nice and so sweet. 

 Saying — taste, love ; taste, love, don't say nay, 

 For next Sunday morning to church we will go. 

 Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, 

 With her baby on her knee, and through the world she goes, 

 Up the heathery mountain and down the rushy glen. 

 We darna go a-hunting for Corner and his men." 



The Dublin and Newry version is not just the same as this, and 

 is called " Up the Heathery Mountain," but both are played the 

 same way. The making of the pudding is important, for in 

 savage weddings the bride making some dish that the bride- 

 groom partakes of is a very important part of the marriage. 



" Up the heathery mountain and down the rushy glen, 

 We daren't go a-hunting for Corner and his men. 

 We are all sally butchers, but one game cock, 

 And that's (Willie Douglas), the flower of the flock. 

 He's the flower of the flock, he's the keeper of the glen, 

 He courted (Aggie Wilson) before he was a man. 

 He hugged her, he juggled her, he took her on his knee, 

 Saying my dear ( Aggie) won't you marry me. 

 (Aggie) made a pudding so nice and so sweet, 

 And (Willie) got his knife and cut it round and neat, 

 Saying, taste, love ; taste, love, don't say nay, 

 For next Monday morning is our wedding day. 

 He hips and he clips, and he buys her a ring, 

 A cherry for a church, and a gay gold ring." 



W. H. Patterson, M.R.I. A., then presented the following 

 Report of the Ethnographical Committee : — The Committee 

 appointed by the Club, met in the Museum on October 30th, 

 1893, and had the advantage of Professor Haddon's presence. 

 Professor Haddon commenced by explaining the reason for the 



