“I Sell My Bat, I Sell My Ball”
A ring is formed with one child in the middle, who is called the “drummer-man.” Whatever this child does the others mimic, moving round as they do so, and singing the following words:—
“I sell my bat, I sell my ball,
I sell my spinning-wheel and all;
And I’ll do all that e’er I can
To follow the eyes of the drummer-man.”
Anyone who does not at once imitate the “drummer-man” must pay a forfeit and take his place as “drummer-man.”