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Another question to which I should like to draw the 

 attention of members, is the desirability of investigating and 

 noting the popular games of children, to see how far the 

 Guernsey forms of such games agree with or differ from 

 those of similar games elsewhere. Within the past few years 

 certain books of folk-games have been compiled and published ; 

 but previous to that, all the forms and formulas and rhymes 

 pertaining to these juvenile recreations were simply handed 

 down traditionally from one generation to another. Some of 

 them seem to have descended from immemorial antiquity ; and 

 they evidently reflect the feudal customs, and possibly also the 

 old religious rites, of a long-forgotten past. Considerable 

 attention is being paid in England and elsewhere to these time- 

 honoured amusements, and it will be interesting, I think, if we 

 also try to gather up similar information here. Especially 

 so, in the case of any once popular games that are now going 

 out of fashion — games that were formerly enjoyed by our 

 older members, but which are not in equal vogue among the 

 children of to-day. 



It will also interest members to know that the Board of 

 Management of the Gruille-Alles Library have decided that 

 the Library shall become a subscriber to the English 

 Folklore Society. My name has been entered as representing 

 the institution, and we shall now receive the Society's various 

 publications as they are issued. We are also collecting 

 together, as opportunity offers, a full set of the previously- 

 issued works and journals of the Folklore Society, so that 

 those who are interested in the subject will in future be able 

 to consult and refer to this extensive repertory of valuable 

 Folklore information. 



J. Linwood Pitts, Hon. Sec. Folklore Sect. 



