GAMES. 229

 

Money I want,

And money I crave;

you don’t give me money,
T’ll sweep you all to the grave!

CCCLXXXIX.
' THE TOWN LOVERS.

A GAME played by boys and girls. A girl is placed in the
niddle of a ring, and says the following lines, the names being
altered to suit the party. She points to each one named, and
at the last line the party selected immediately runs away, and
if the girl catches him, he pays a forfeit, or the game is com-
menced again, the boy being placed in the middle, and the lines,
mutatis mutandis, serve for a reversed amusement :

There is a girl of our town,

She often wears a flowered gown:
Tommy loves her night and day,
And Richard when he may,

And Johnny when he can:

I think Sam will be the man!

CCCXC.

THIS is the way the ladies ride ;
Eris tre, tre; tree;
Tri, tre, tre, tree!

This is the way the ladies ride,
Tri, tre, tre, tre, tri-tre-tre-tree !