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"Water Wallflower." All
should know this game, which is more comonly played by very small
misses.
Forming a ring, all join
hands and dance, or move slowly round, singing:-
Water, water wallflower,
growing up so high,
We are all maidens, and we must all die,
Excepting [Nellie Newton], the youngest of us all,
She can dance and she can sing, and she can knock us all down.
Here all clap hands, with
the exception of the one named, who stands looking abashed, while the
others sing:—
Fie, fie, fie, for shame,
Turn your back to the wall again.
At the command, she who
has been named turns, so that she faces outwards now, with her back to
the centre of the ring; though she still clasps hands with those on
either side, and continues in the movement, singing with the others.
When all in like manner have been chapped out, and are facing the open.
the game is finished. |
