game-rhymes

Updated: June 30, 2025

The result of his sympathetic and scholarly investigations is most interesting to the student of childhood, and as valuable philologically as historically. In speaking of the old rounds and rhymed formulas which have preserved their vitality under the effacing hand of Time, he says, "It will be obvious that many of these well-known game-rhymes were not composed by children.

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - Children's Rights : A book of nursery logic