ring-of-roses

Updated: August 31, 2026

The fact that he dubs the classmate whom he admires most "a good sport," shows that he thinks so, anyway. So organized play was carefully introduced on the coast. It caught like wildfire among the children, and it was delightful to see groups of them naïvely memorizing by the roadside school lessons in the form of "Ring-of-Roses," "Looby-Loo," "All on the Train for Boston."

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell - A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell