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Rh She chooses one, and after she has caught her they go through the game again.

The game of “Sally Water” is common to many counties. Conf. variants in Miss Burne’s Shropshire Folklore, p. 509; see Folklore Record, vol. v. p. 88, for a contribution from a Surrey source, and Folklore Journal, vol. i. p. 385, for a Derbyshire one.

The children form a ring, and one of them (a girl) is chosen to stand in the centre, and pretends to cry, whilst the rest move round her singing:

The girl in the middle answers:

The chorus replies :

Here the girl in the centre must choose a boy (or girl if she prefers), the others still circling round and singing:

The pair then kiss or embrace each other, as the others continue:

The game then recommences as before, with a different girl in the middle.