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1. Games I Play

   

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   There are different games played out-side and inside such as- "Here comes the Blue-bird through the Window," "There was a Happy Wedding," Half a pound of Tuppenny Rice," There came a Duke-A-Riding, "Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend my shoe," "Help Tig, "Colours," and Donkey."
   There's rhymes that you say when you
   are playing the games. The rhyme you
   say to the first game is-
   "Here comes the blue-bird through the window,
   Here comes the blue-bird through the door,
   Here comes the blue-bird through the window,
   Tra-la-la-la-la."
   "Take your little partner and dance on the middle,
   Take your little partner and dance on the floor
   Take your little partner and dance on the middle
   Tra-la-la-la-la.
   The way you play it is, you all stand in a ring and one person goes under the arms singing the rhyme, she then takes a partner and dances in the middle they then go under the arms till they've to take a partner they each take a different person, and they keep going on like this till everybody has a partner.
   The rhyme about the second game is-
   "Half a pound of tuppenny rice,

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