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Now we dance looby, looby, looby,
Shake your right hand a little,
Shake your left hand a little,
Shake your right foot a little,
Shake your left foot a little,
Shake your head a little,

And turn you round about.

Children dance round first, then stop and shake the hand,
&c., then turn slowly round, and then dance in a ring again.

CCCLXVI.
THE BRAMBLE-BUSH.

A RING-DANCE imitation play, the metrical portion of which
is not without a little melody. The bramble-bush is often
imaginative, but sometimes represented by a child in the centre
of the ring; all join hands, and dance round ina circle, singing,

Here we go round the bramble-bush,
The bramble-bush, the bramble-bush ;
Here we go round the bramble-bush
On a cold frosty morning!
After the chanting of this verse is ended, all the children com-
mence an imitation of washing clothes, making appropriate
movements with their hands, and saying,
This is the way we wash our clothes,
Wash our clothes, wash our clothes;
This is the way we wash our clothes
On a cold frosty morning!

They then dance round, repeating the first stanza, after which