Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories / A Book for Bairns and Big Folk

This collection assembles traditional nursery rhymes, counting-out formulas, and detailed descriptions of rhyme-games with accompanying actions, followed by children's songs and ballads, verses of humour and schoolroom lore, and ten chapbook tales presented verbatim. It opens with a commentary on nursery rhymes and their playful functions, provides numerous counting-out examples from home and abroad, and gives the words and stage directions for familiar indoor and outdoor play. The songs and ballads section gathers short lyrical pieces and comic ditties, while later pages collect quaint sayings, schoolroom curiosities, and full-length traditional stories rendered in older chapbook form for readers of all ages.