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45762	nan	Games and Songs of American Children			.txt	text/plain	74605	7262	88	A majority of the games of children are played with rhymed formulas, that ancient ballads have sometimes passed into children's games. festivities, forming the ring, and playing games which are included coquette that she "plays kissing games in rings of boys, preferring the Our first version shows the form of the game as played in New York in It is an old English song, which has been fitted for a ring-game by the sung by an old woman, the ring answering with the game-rhyme. used in New England as a children's game or dance at evening parties. The French, Italian, and Spanish versions of this game also represent It is played by children in New York city as a kissing-game in the ring, A simple guessing-game, familiar to children in New England. This game is differently played by little girls in Philadelphia, thus: games which are not played also in an English form.	./cache/45762.txt	./txt/45762.txt