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+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | Text printed in italics in the original work is presented here | | between underscores, as in _text_. Similarly, bold face in the | | original is represented as =text=. | | | | Footnotes have been moved to the end of the description of the | | game. | | | | [Illustration] means that there is an illustration present in the | | text; [Music] means a transcription in musical notation. | | | | [Greek: text] represents a transcription of Greek text. [zeta] | | and [yogh] represent the named characters. The oe-ligature has | | been transcribed as [oe]. | | | | More Transcriber's Notes may be found at the end of this text. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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THE TRADITIONAL GAMES Of England, Scotland, and Ireland
TUNES, SINGING-RHYMES, AND METHODS OF PLAYING ACCORDING TO THE VARIANTS EXTANT AND RECORDED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE KINGDOM
COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY ALICE BERTHA GOMME
TOGETHER WITH A MEMOIR ON THE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S GAMES
The completion of the second volume of my Dictionary has been delayed from several unforeseen circumstances, the most important being the death of my most kind and learned friend the Rev. Dr. Gregor. The loss which folk-lore students as a body sustained by this lamented scholar's death, was in my own case accentuated, not only by many years of kindly communication, but by the very special help which he generously gave me for this collection.