The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

Volume II.

Chapter 5110 wordsPublic domain

In the Addenda, the original work uses Arabic rather than Roman numerals for different variants; this has not been changed.

The original work uses both 2-4 and 2/4 to indicate musical time; this has not been standardised.

Page 199: Love another like sister and brother is probably a mistake (Love one another like sister and brother).

Page 336/7: The original work does not give a source or authority for variation XXV.

Changes made to the original text:

Footnotes have been moved to end of the description of the game.

Sources (when printed in smaller type in the original work) have been moved to a separate line where necessary.