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"The Blue Bird," played by
very small children, is rather pretty. The rhyme is:—
Here comes a [blue] bird
through the window,
Here comes a [blue] bird through the door,
Here conies a [blue] bird through the window,
Hey, diddle, hi dum, day.
Take a little dance and a hop in the corner,
Take a little dance and a hop in the floor,
Take a little dance and a hop in the corner,
Hey, diddle, hi dum, day.
The players dance round
in a ring. One previously, by the process of a chapping-out rhyme, being
made "it," goes first outside, then into the centre. Her business now is
to decide who shall succeed her; and according as the colour-word in the
rhyme—red, blue, green, or yellow, etc.--corresponds with the dress of
all the individual players in the successive singing, the ones spotted
successively take their place in the centre, and the process goes on, of
course, until all have shared alike in the game. |
