"Carrots!" cried one, but was laughed to scorn.

"Candles!" cried another, and triumphed.

Then there were games which consisted in the saying of strange incantations.

The children would go round and round, as was evident from the sound of their feet, chanting the while:--"Sally, Sally Wallflower, Sprinkle in a pan; Rise, Sally Wallflower, And choose your young man.

Choose for the fairest one, Choose for the best, Choose for the rarest one, That you love best!" Upon this followed words and movements only half understood; then at length broke out a sort of hymeneal chorus:--"Here stands a young couple, Just married and settled: Their father and mother they must obey.